What is the term used to refer to the notion that a child's development is dependent on the degree of match between the child's temperament and the nature and demands of the environment in which they are being raised?
a) Erikson's theory of psychosocial development
b) trust-versus-mistrust stage
c) autonomy-versus-shame-and-doubt stage
d) goodness-of-fit
d
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You are reading an article in a popular magazine. The article is on gender roles. As you read, you notice a statement that doesn't seem to be correct. Which is the incorrect statement?
A. Gender roles are learned according to the social learning theory. B. There are rules and knowledge about what are inappropriate gender behaviors. C. Parents seldom reward children for their behaviors when they match traditional gender roles. D. The cognitive development theory argues that children play an active role in their own gender role development.
How does marital conflict negatively impact sibling relationships?
What will be an ideal response?
A therapist's relationship to a client is impacted by the
a. therapist's theoretical approach. b. client's perspective. c. interaction of the therapist's theoretical approach and the client's perspective. d. none of these.
When children observe their same-sex parent behaving in certain ways and imitate that behavior, a psychologist uses which theory to explain the situation?
A. Freudian psychoanalysis B. Piaget's theory of development C. gender schema theory D. social learning theory