PSYC Exam 3 Questions

-         The basic units of meaning in a language are the?

morphemes

-         Regarding a school’s effectiveness, research found that?

high-achieving parents tend to select schools with strong academic reputations

-         Universal grammar is best described as?

a system of common rules and properties for learning any of the world's languages

-         Research shows that in effective classrooms, teachers?

regularly assign homework and demand a lot from their students

-         When a toddler holds a cup up and says, “Milk,” the parent says, “You’re ready for more milk.” This parent’s response is best described as an example of?

expansion

-         Trait theorists believe that?

there is continuity in personality over the years

-         Which aspect of personality is more situation-specific and changeable and includes motives, goals, personal concerns, and coping mechanisms?

characteristic adaptations

-         An organized combination of attributes, motives, values, and behaviors unique to each individual is called ?

personality

-         Your overall evaluation of your worth as a person, whether high or low, is called your _______. (Dr. Sherman REALLY wants you to have HIGH levels of this--she believes in you!!)?

self-esteem

-         The unique and integrated aspect of personality that we construct about our past, present, and future to give ourselves an identity is referred to as ?

life stories

-         Each society generally has a set of standards or expectations regarding the behaviors and traits that are considered desirable for males and females. These sets of expectations are called?

gender role norms

-         The goal of the gender role aspect called “agency” is to prepare a person ?

 for individual achievement

-         Estrogen affects the anatomy and physiology of a brain structure, involved in long-term memory and spatial orientation. This brain structure is the?

hippocampus

-         Individuals whose internal sense of gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth as male or female are referred to as?

cisgender

-         Males typically have larger bones and muscle mass than females, which would be considered a(n) ?

biological sex difference

Within a language, teh sytematic rules for ordering words within a sentence are called…?

syntax

Nativists believe that..?

infants are biologically programmed for language aquistion

When a toddler says “Milk” and the parent says “Your ready for more milk?” the parents repsonse is best descibed as…?

expansion

In comparison of asian students and american students, research found that..?

asian students spent more time on task in shcool than american students do

The social learning perpective assumes that..?

personality development is higgly included by enviromental experinces

Culters that emphazises independe and encoruage children to pursue their own goals are called?

individualistic cultures

A significgant change in self-desciption appears at about age 8 and involves a shift from descriptions focussing on…?

phsyical characteristiscs to descriptions focusing on social qualities

Research on idenity formation, inclusing ethical/racial idenity, has found that…?

a postive ethical.racial idenity contributes to academic achivements

Older adults tend to maintain their self-esteemm by…?

adjusting their goals and standards of self-evaluation to be more realistic

The shift with age toward greater emotinial stability, agreebalness, and constienouness is known as..?

the maturity principle

Individuals whose internal sense of gender matches the sex that were assigned at birth refers to as…?

cisgender

Infants derive pleasure from sucking/mouthing/biting, this was sued to show an oral stage of development by whom…?

Sigmund Freud