A lifespan psychologist would point out that the only way to understand a patient's disorder is to understand how the individual
A. developed and changed throughout his or her life.
B. developed during the psychosexual stages of his or her life.
C. resolved conflicts in early life.
D. sees himself or herself as part of a family, a community, and a culture.
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
Seth, a psychologist, would like to conduct research in the form of naturalistic observation of drug sales and use among teenagers in his city’s poorest neighborhood without their knowledge. What problem does this raise?
a. The research may be unethical. b. People often behave differently when they know they are being observed. c. His sample is insufficiently representative for naturalistic observation. d. Study participants tend to want to appear socially appropriate.
An approach-approach conflict involves:
A. a single situation with both negative and positive aspects B. choosing between positive and negative situations C. choosing between two positive situations D. a single situation without any pleasurable consequences
What is deferred imitation?
Sorting objects into categories Repeating actions observed at an earlier time Accomplishing a task with little assistance Encoding and decoding social situations
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory suggests that:
A. a child's interactions with adults organize the child's learning experiences. B. children learn only through a complex interaction of rewards and punishments. C. children are like miniature adults and need to be rigidly instructed to obtain cognitive skills. D. a child's development is unaffected by ethnicity and gender.