Exam 9: Personality Development: Alternative Views

Susan Crockenberg discovered in her research that if a baby was irritable, but the mother had __________, the child nearly always developed secure attachment.

The pattern of events that Freud believed occur between ages 3 and 5, when a child experiences a sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex, is called __________ .

Four-year-old Mindy has started to compete with her mother for her father's attention. Which psychosexual stage is Mindy in?

Whose theory supports an integration of learning models and cognitive-developmental approaches?

Hetherington has found that, after divorce, children with difficult temperaments

According to Bandura, a high school student who says that he failed a class because he didn't study enough, rather than claim that the reason he failed was because the class was too difficult, is demonstrating a(n)

A basic proposition of psychoanalytic approaches to personality is that

The researcher Kagan suggests that differences in behavioral inhibition are based on differing thresholds for arousal in parts of the brain; specifically, the __________ and the __________ .

According to trait theory, the extent to which people try to get along with others measures their

According to Erikson, the sequence of stages is most influenced by

According to Thomas and Chess, the concept of "goodness-of-fit" refers to

Describe the five key dimensions of temperament in children and explain how they relate to the Big Five personality dimensions.

Freud believed that boys handle the anxiety during the phallic stage by a process called __________ .

Dr. Montana is a radical behaviorist. He is most likely to believe that variations in behavior are caused by

Biological theorists believe that

Janice takes her toys apart and gets upset when they can't be fixed. Erikson would place her in the stage of

The Oedipus conflict refers to a boy's

The bulk of research on individual differences in children has been couched in terms of __________ .

Which of the following is characteristic of someone high in extraversion?

Leroy is full of original ideas and is very imaginative. He is high in which of the Big Five personality traits?