ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY PSYC 323 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SOLVED 2024 BUNDLED !!

A-not-B error - Also called AB error, this occurs when infants make the mistake of selecting the familiar hiding place (A) to locate an object, rather than looking in the new hiding place (B), as they progress into substage 4 in Piaget's sensorimotor stage. accommodation - Piagetian concept of a...

To be a science, Psych needs to look at what's observable ____ of you. This was said by ____ ____ - observable; John Watson B.F. Skinner changed view of observable to an n= - 1 Relationship between one event and another is predicable - functional relations ____ behavior is only observable ...

Piaget's stages of cognitive development - sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational sensorimotor - birth-2 years (Piaget) -reflexes to goal directed activity -from body to outside world -development of object permanence -from action to mental representation ...

interdependence theory - version of social exchange theory that focuses on the rules that predict how interdependent partners will behave toward eachother and how they evaluate the outcomes of their interactions given outcome matrix - behavior motivated by self interest effective outcome matri...

lifespan perspective refers to the idea that development is a lifelong process cognitive domain of development -focuses on how internal mental processes can change over time -language development -memory -logical reasoning -abstract inferences -moral reasoning psychosocial domain of develop...

Cohort Effects - relative similarities of a person's birth, era, or generation. (ie. millennials) Continuity vs. Discontinuity - continuity: development is gradual and occurs slowly discontinuity: sudden changes (age-related stages) Scientific Method - 1. conceptualize 2. collect data 3. d...