Self Quiz -Chapter 1-Berk
True or False: Mid-Twentieth-Century Theories and Recent Theoretical Perspectives (pp. 14–26)
Directions: Read each of the following statements and indicate whether it is True (T) or False (F).
_____ 1. According to Freud, in each stage of psychosexual development, parents walk a fine line between permitting too much or too little gratification of their child’s basic needs.
_____ 2. Both Freud and Erikson pointed out that normal development must be understood in relation to each culture’s life situation.
_____ 3. Behaviorism has been praised for acknowledging people’s contributions to their own development.
_____ 4. In Piaget’s theory, as the brain develops and children’s experiences expand, they move through four broad stages, each characterized by qualitatively distinct ways of thinking.
_____ 5. Research indicates that Piaget underestimated the competencies of infants and preschoolers.
_____ 6. Information-processing researchers view the mind as a symbol-manipulating system through which information flows.
_____ 7. Developmental neuroscience can identify relationships between changes in the brain and cognitive processing, but it has little to say about social or emotional development.
_____ 8. According to Vygotsky, social interaction is necessary for children to acquire the ways of thinking and behaving that make up a community’s culture.
_____ 9. The mesosystem consists of social settings that do not contain the developing person but nevertheless affect experiences in immediate settings.
_____ 10. Bronfenbrenner characterized the environment as dynamic and ever-changing.