Two Developmental Psychologists Are Having a Conversation

question 67

Multiple Choice

Two developmental psychologists are having a conversation.One believes in the traditional approach of developmental change,whereas the other believes in the life-span approach.The two are most likely differ on:

• A) whether developmental change starts at birth or at conception.
• B) whether the tabula rasa or the innate goodness positions were correct.
• C) whether most developmental change occurs from birth to adolescence or throughout adulthood as well as childhood.
• D) whether the earlier theorists,such as Freud and Jung,were correct or whether the later theorists such as Piaget and Skinner were correct about developmental change.

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Definitions:

Extended Exposure

A therapeutic technique involving repeated, prolonged contact with a feared stimulus, aiming to reduce anxiety or distress associated with it.

Spontaneous Recovery

A phenomenon of learning and memory that refers to the reemergence of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of rest and with no further conditioning.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the process of reducing or eliminating a conditioned response by discontinuing reinforcement.

Stimulus Generalization

The psychological phenomenon where a response learned for one stimulus is involuntarily elicited by similar stimuli.