psych quiz 1 Flashcards
(14 cards)
This is the term Freud came up with to
describe the desire within a person to follow
the rules of society and work to achieve the
approval of friends and family members
Superego
This is the term associated with the idea a
person can learn more from someone who is
just a little more skilled than the person
zone of proximal development
Freud used this term to describe the part of
a person’s makeup that wants immediate
gratification
id
This is the term for when elementary school
children believe the world revolves around
them
egocentrism
Abraham Maslow would say people are in a
position to reach this ultimate goal when all
their other needs are met
self-actualization
If someone understands this concept it
would mean the person understands that
changing the shape of something does not alter
the amount of that something
conservation
Name one of the stages of Lawrence
Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
preconventional, conventional, or postconventional
This Russian psychologist said people learn
from those who know just a little more than
they do
Lev Vygotsky
This is another term for “work” and it is
what Erikson believes elementary school
children need to develop a sense of
industry
Abraham Maslow used this term and
diagram to illustrate how people need their
basic needs met before they can worry about
other needs and desires
hierarchy of needs
This psychologist would be likely to say that
free will is an illusion
B.F. Skinner
This psychologist would say that
experiments he did with dogs perhaps prove
that people can be conditioned to behave in
certain ways
Ivan Pavlov
This psychologist divided a person’s lifespan
into 8 stages associated with psychosocial
crises
Erik Erikson
This is the concept in which a person
understands that an object exists even though
they do not see the object
object permanence
