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2024 PSYC 228 exam update with correct questions and answers Athabasca University

PSYC 228 expected exam questions with correct answers (for both mterm and final fall 2024) Athabasca University

Puberty: - correct answer a hormonal procens resulting in reproductive oompetenoe and related phystcal development. Bexual maturstion and physical development. Adolescence: - correct answer the transitional period in which young people move into adult oognitiona, emotions, and eocial roles. 5 Key physical changes in Adolecence - correct answer 1. Prim...

Puberty: - correct answer a hormonal procens resulting in reproductive oompetenoe and related phystcal development. Bexual maturstion and physical development. Adolescence: - correct answer the transitional period in which young people move into adult oognitiona, emotions, and eocial roles. 5 Key physical changes in Adolecence - correct answer 1. Prim...

A researcher goes to downtown Binghamton everyday for a month. They go up to strangers and ask for directions. A group of confederates block them from the participant and one switches places with the researcher. They record if the participant notices the change. What form of research does this best describe? - correct answer Naturalistic Observation Two twins have very different personalities. One, Alex, is a social butterfly with a large group o...

The 3 Domains of Development - correct answer Physical, cognitive, and social-emotional Conscientiousness - correct answer Personality trait of being thorough, careful, or vigilant Nature vs Nurture - correct answer nature is genetic inheritance and nurture is the influence of the environment Qualitative vs Quantitative - correct answer ...

Chapter 5: - correct answer Cognitive Development in Infancy (138) 1) Piaget's Theory of Infant Development (140) - correct answer includes what infants know. he saught to discover how children at different points in their development think about the world and how systematic changes in their thinking occur. Cognitive processes (141) - correct answer ...

What do our blind spots do in regard to understanding our dreams? - correct answer they always get in the way to some extent In regard to the classic dramatic structure, the exposition of the dream refers to ____? - correct answer place, time, characters, which show the initial situation of the dreamer Consider the following dream: I am standing in a garden with a large dog, The dog begins to dig...

The Trait Approach - correct answer Study of Personality that is based on meaningful adjectives that describe human behavior. These adjectives are then represented as a dimension along which people vary. Ppl are then scaled along that trait dimension. Raymond Cattell - correct answer Took thousands of adjectives that describe behavior. Had a large number of people rated on those dimensions. fact...

Piaget's stages of cognitive development - 1. sensorimotor 2. preoperational 3. concrete operational 4. formal operational Erikson's stages of psychosocial development - 1. trust vs. mistrust 2. autonomy vs. shame and doubt 3. initiative vs. guilt 4. industry vs. inferiority 5. identity vs. role confusion 6. intimacy vs. isolation 7. generativity vs. stagnation 8. ego integrity vs. despair What is the psychodynamic perspective? - the approach that states behaviour is motivated ...

What is a schema? - a cognitive structure that organizes knowledge, experience, & expectations about one's environment. Ppl have schemas for most every concept in their experience. What is a script? - a schema that guides behavior in social situations. Exs: How to behave at a restaurant. What happens at a meeting. What to do in an emergency. Specifies the roles and actions of all participants. How do schemas and scripts pertain to personality theory? - Everyone's schema's and scripts...

Personality meaning - correct answer a unique pattern of psychological and behavioral characteristics. How we respond to our personal and social environment personality is reflected by - correct answer consistency in behavioral reactions across situations personality predictions - correct answer through personality psych we can use self reports to...