AP Psychology: Developmental Psychology & Personality 2

Question 1

An 8-month-old cries when a stranger approaches but calms when held by a parent. This best illustrates which concept?

Accepted Answer

Stranger anxiety

Answer

Stranger anxiety is the fear of unfamiliar people that emerges around 8 months as attachment develops.

Question 2

In Harlow's monkey experiments, infant monkeys preferred the cloth mother over the wire mother that provided food, demonstrating the importance of what?

Accepted Answer

Contact comfort

Answer

Harlow showed that contact comfort, not nourishment, was the primary basis of attachment.

Question 3

According to Piaget, a child who understands that pouring water from a tall glass into a wide glass does not change the amount has achieved which ability?

Accepted Answer

Conservation

Answer

Conservation is the understanding that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape or appearance.

Question 4

Freud proposed that the part of personality operating on the 'reality principle' to satisfy the id realistically is the:

Accepted Answer

Ego

Answer

The ego mediates between the id and superego using the reality principle.

Question 5

A teenager strongly questioning 'Who am I?' while trying out different roles is in which Erikson stage?

Accepted Answer

Identity vs. role confusion

Answer

Adolescence centers on resolving identity versus role confusion.

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AP Psychology: Developmental Psychology & Personality 2