A learner encounters information that cannot fit comfortably into an existing schema, producing cognitive imbalance. Piaget would call this:
Disequilibrium is cognitive imbalance caused by new information that does not fit.
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A learner resolves cognitive conflict by modifying an existing schema and restoring cognitive balance. The overall process best represents:
Adaptation involves assimilation and accommodation to restore equilibrium.
A two-year-old uses a cardboard box as a “car” during pretend play. This behavior is most characteristic of Piaget’s:
Preoperational thought includes symbolic and pretend play.
Which statement best captures the distinction between growth and development presented in the file?
Growth is primarily physical/quantitative; development includes broader qualitative changes.
A child increases substantially in height but shows little corresponding improvement in reasoning, emotional regulation, or social competence. This illustrates why growth and development are:
Growth and development are related but distinguishable concepts.
A developmental change continues from infancy through adulthood, although its intensity varies across periods. This best illustrates that development is:
Development is continuous even though its rate may vary.
A child first gains control over the head, later the arms, and subsequently the legs. This sequence demonstrates the:
Cephalocaudal development proceeds from head to lower body.
A child develops control of the arms before acquiring refined control of the fingers. This pattern exemplifies:
Proximodistal development proceeds from center to extremities.
A child’s genetic potential for language develops differently because of variations in family interaction and cultural environment. This most directly demonstrates:
Development reflects interaction between genetic potential and environment.
A theory emphasizes free will, personal growth and the innate tendency to realize one’s potential. This most strongly reflects:
Humanism emphasizes free will, growth, and self-actualization.
A student becomes increasingly concerned with recognition and confidence after achieving social acceptance. In Maslow’s hierarchy, the dominant need has shifted toward:
Esteem needs involve recognition, confidence, and achievement.
A highly talented artist continues creating meaningful work despite limited social recognition because of a desire to fulfill personal potential. This most closely reflects:
Self-actualization is fulfilling one's potential.
According to the file, Freud’s latency stage is characterized primarily by:
Latency involves dormant sexual energy and focus on social and intellectual development.
A person redirects unacceptable impulses into socially productive intellectual activity. Which Freudian mechanism is most conceptually relevant?
Sublimation channels unacceptable impulses into socially valued activities.
The Gestalt position that perception actively organizes sensory information most directly challenges the idea that perception is:
Gestalt psychology holds that perception is active, not passively received.
A person’s forgotten childhood experience continues to influence behavior without entering conscious awareness. Freud would primarily locate this influence in the:
The unconscious contains thoughts and memories outside awareness that still influence behavior.
A person cannot currently recall a fact but can retrieve it immediately when given a suitable cue. According to Freud’s model, the information is most appropriately located in the:
Preconscious material is not currently in awareness but can be retrieved with cues.
Which situation most clearly represents the operation of the superego?
The superego represents internalized moral standards.
A child learns to control elimination while adapting personal gratification to parental expectations. Freud would associate this conflict most closely with the:
The anal stage centers on toilet training and control.
A child’s personality development is dominated by the resolution of the Oedipus/Electra conflict. This corresponds most directly to the:
The Oedipus/Electra conflict occurs during the phallic stage.
A researcher rejects the study of unobservable mental events and investigates only measurable stimulus-response relationships. His position most closely reflects:
Behaviorism focuses only on observable stimulus-response relationships.
A psychologist asks participants to break their conscious experience of a complex sensation into basic sensations and report each component. This approach is most characteristic of:
Structuralism seeks the basic elements of conscious experience through introspection.
The major conceptual difference between structuralism and functionalism is that functionalism primarily asks:
Functionalism focuses on the purpose or function of mental processes.
A psychologist argues that consciousness should be understood as a continuously changing flow rather than as separate mental elements. This position reflects:
Functionalism viewed consciousness as a continuous stream.