1.
PSYCHOLOGY is considered a field that
scientifically studies humans.
2.
Of the two basic kinds of psychologists, those
that treat patients and clients are APPLIED PSYCHOLOGISTS.
3.
The COGNITIVE APPROACH says that learning is the
main cause of humans behaving as they do.
4.
According to the BIOPSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH, the
physical system is considered to be the main cause of behavior.
5.
B.F. SKINNER was famous behaviorist who focused on
observable behavior.
6.
Advanced language development is difficult to
achieve beyond a certain critical period.
7.
Older parents are more likely to abuse their
children than teenage parents.
8.
All children have the same maturation rate.
9.
Humans have the longest developmental period of
any creature.
10.
Girls have a more steady growth cycle than boys.
11.
Each parenting style has fairly predictable
effects on children.
12.
Most ninth and tenth graders are in the period of
middle adolescence.
13.
puberty is influenced by the adrenal glands.
14.
the gonads and pituitary glands do not influence
sexual maturation.
15.
hormones are glands that have an effect on sexual
maturation.
16.
early and late maturers are both about one and
one-half years or more off of the average maturer.
17.
anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder which
involves excessive dieting.
18.
in a social contract, people agree to something
because they believe it is in everyone’s best interest.
19.
generally, a father’s behavior contributes more to
a child’s tendency to be delinquent than the behavior of the mother.
20.
There is a strong relationship between lack of
achievement in school and delinquent behavior.
21.
being an early or late maturer can increase
conflicts with parents.
22.
Lawrence Kohlberg felt everyone operates on the
formal operation level.
23.
people who live by their own principles, no matter
what the consequences, are operating on the conventional level of moral
reasoning.
24.
both sexes experience puberty at the same time.
25.
cognitive abilities affect moral reasoning.