Development Terms, Study Questions, and Quizzes

Study Guide Menu

• Introduction to Developmental Psychology
• Theories of Development
• People and Further Reading
• Key Terms and Study Questions

1. What are some of the essential things we can learn from the study of developmental psychology?

2. What are the major differences between Sigmund Freud?s theory of development and Erik Erikson?s theory?

3. How can classical conditioning and operant conditioning be used to describe and explain development?

4. According to Erik Erikson, what major conflict faced by adolescents?

5. What are the four major stages of Piaget?s theory of cognitive development?

1. Accommodation
2. Acquisition
3. Adaptation
4. Assimilation
5. Anal Stage
6. Concrete Operational Stage
7. Formal Operational Stage
8. Genital Stage
9. Oral Stage
10. Phallic Stage
11. Preoperational Stage
12. Schema
13. Sensorimotor Stage

Developmental Psychology Quizzes:

Test your knowledge of what you have learned about developmental psychology in these quizzes.

• Psychosocial Development Quiz
• Learning and Conditioning Quiz
• Cognitive Development Quiz

Study Guide Menu

• Introduction to Developmental Psychology
• Theories of Development
• People and Further Reading
• Key Terms and Study Questions