Test Bank For Life-Span Development 6th Canadian Edition By John W Santrock
Chapter 02
Prominent Approaches in Life-Span Development
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which approach posits that development is heavily coloured by emotion?
A. ethological
B. information-processing
C. psychoanalytic
D. social-cognitive
Blooms: Remember
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the psychoanalytic approach and the contributions of major theorists.
Topic: 02-02 Characteristics of the Psychoanalytic Approach
2. Which approach describes development as primarily unconscious?
A. cognitive
B. information-processing
C. psychoanalytic
D. ethological
Blooms: Remember
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the psychoanalytic approach and the contributions of major theorists.
Topic: 02-02 Characteristics of the Psychoanalytic Approach
3. When Mary was a young child, she watched her big brother throw her beloved stuffed animal into the fireplace and saw it burn. Mary felt extreme anguish over her loss and anger at her brother, but she later forgot this traumatic event. Freud would say that ____________.
A. repression is the defense mechanism responsible
B. impairments to her memory and information processing are due to an uncontrolled id
C. she would probably develop a fragile superego as a result
D. her ability to pass through the five psycho-sexual stages would be compromised
Blooms: Apply
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the psychoanalytic approach and the contributions of major theorists.
Topic: 02-03 Sigmund Freud
4. Callie is learning about the psychoanalytic perspective and understands there are three parts to the personality. According to Freud, they are the ______________.
A. libido, ego, and id
B. unconscious, conscious, and superego
C. ego, superego, and subego
D. superego, ego, and id
Blooms: Apply
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the psychoanalytic approach and the contributions of major theorists.
Topic: 02-03 Sigmund Freud
5. Which of the structures identified by Freud uses reasoning to make decisions?
A. id
B. ego
C. superego
D. erogenous zone
Blooms: Remember
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the psychoanalytic approach and the contributions of major theorists.
Topic: 02-03 Sigmund Freud
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