NCE Mock Exam Practice

Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are

psychosocial

 In Freud's psychodynamic theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist. Ego psychologists

 believe in man's powers of reasoning to control behavior.

The only psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory which encompasses the entire life span was

Erik Erikson

The statement "the ego is dependent on the id" would most likely reflect the work of

The statement "the ego is dependent on the id" would most likely reflect the work of

Jean Piaget's idiographic approach created his theory with four stages. The correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is

sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations

Some behavioral scientists have been critical of Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as

 his findings were often derived from observing his own children

A tall skinny pitcher of water is emptied into a small squatty pitcher. A child indicates that she feels the small pitcher has less water. The child has not yet mastered

conservation

In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to

volume or mass

A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as

 concrete operations - ages 7-11 years

___ expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development

 Lawrence Kohlberg

 According to Jean Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage, known as concrete operations or concrete operational thought. This notion suggests

 one can undo an action, hence an object (say a glass of water) can return to its initial shape

 During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought (stage 2) says, "The rain is following me." This is an example of

egocentrism

 Lawrence Kohlberg suggested

three levels of morality

The Heinz dilemma is to Kohlberg's theory as

 a typing test is to the level of typing skill mastered