5 Written Questions

1. culturally determined knowledge absorbed from social interaction
2. generalizations about a group of people in which the same characteristics are assigned to all members of a group
3. describes the ways the social perceiver uses information to generate causal explanations
4. 1. sensorimotor stage
   2. preoperational stage
   3. concrete operations stage
   4. formal operations stage
5. rules of language

5 Matching Questions

1. Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development and reasoning
2. ventromedial hypothalamus ____________ eating behavior
3. radical middle
4. gender identity
5. developmental psychology

1. a an individual's sense of maleness or femaleness
2. b - preconventional
   - conventional
   - principled (post conventional)
3. c ceases
4. d interaction between physical and psychological processes, and stages of growth from conception throughout the entire life span
5. e synthesis of extreme Nativism and extreme "empiricism"

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. new cognitive elements are fitted in with old elements or modified to fit more easily
   1. socialization
   2. motivation
   3. assimilation
   4. accommodation
2. intuitive psychologists
   1. Erik Erikson
   2. Fritz Heider said people use
   3. gender identity
   4. cognitive development
3. an intense, enduring, social-emotional relationship
   1. morality
   2. drives
   3. attachment
   4. attitude
4. evolutionary need to organize in groups
   1. attributions
   2. phonology
   3. gender roles
   4. need to belong
5. people should attribute behaviors to a causal factor if the fact is present whenever the behavior occurred but was absent when it did not occur
   1. cognitive development
   2. attribution theory
   3. covariation principle
   4. social role

5 True/False Questions

1. Julian Rotter → dispositional and situational forces

   True        False

2. accommodation → lifelong process through which an individual's behavior patterns, values, standards, skill, attitudes and motives are shaped to conform to those seen as socially desirable

   True        False

3. social categorization → process by which people come to understand and categorize the behaviors of others

   True        False

4. sensorimotor stage → - 0-2 years old
   - object permanence

   True        False

5. groupthink → an evaluation of one's own group as better than others

   True        False