Human Growth & Development

A developmental theorist believes that children form personal attachments in phases. This person is:

A researcher studies a group of gifted children from age 10 through their 21st birthday. Their growth rates in height and weight are recorded yearly along with individual scores on various intelligence, aptitude, and achievement tests. What type of research is appropriate?

Bruner devised a stage theory of language development. Which stage suggests that a child will imagine pictures to represent something?

Piaget found nativism and empiricism incomplete and therefore created constructivism. Constructivism is:

Personality traits are enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself and displayed in social and personal contexts. When personality traits become inflexible and maladaptive, there are impairments and distress with inner experiences and behavior. The DSM-5 uses which approach to explain the qualitatively distinct clinical syndromes that differ from normal personality development?

The personality disorders grouped into three clusters are based upon:

According to Erik Erikson, the conflict between industry vs. inferiority takes place at about what age?

The term that applies to the taking of two drugs in combination and has a magnified effect is:

A client in treatment for polydrug use and anger management broke a house rule and was informed by the clinical manager he was expelled from the program. He told the manager he misbehaved because of his temper and cannot control his anger. The term for this behavior is:

Marlatt advocated for harm reduction as a method or treatment for addiction that endorses all of the following principles except:

Wellness over the lifespan includes a well thought out plan for optimal development. Most plans include physical, mental, nutrition, spirituality, self-care, leisure and several other components. Literature support for exercise suggests some advantages. All are considered exercise benefits except:

During an intake assessment, a client indicates that she is in an abusive relationship with her husband. The most appropriate therapy for this client is:

Vygotsky did not use the term developmental crises. It was his belief a crisis in intellect took place when which one of the following existed in the early life of the child?

Neurological development differs because of deficits in personal, social, academic, or occupational functioning in the form of very specific limitations of learning to global impairments in social skills or intelligence. Developmentally, these limitations typically occur:

A counselor, who has been counseling a family for eight sessions during supervision received feedback from his/her supervisor that he or she is experiencing boundary naiveté issues. The supervisor is suggesting that the counselor is:

According to Erikson’s psychosocial stages by what age does a child begin investigating various roles, for example, playing house or pretending to be a fireman?

According to Kohlberg, most adults operate at what moral level?

John works for an environmental agency and lobbies for recycling. He believes recycling is good for the environment and encourages others to recycle, yet at home, John does not recycle his aluminum cans or newspapers. Which of the stages of valuing has John not applied in his life?

A counselor trained in the ethological theory and attachment theory is conducting counseling with an adolescent male who was referred by his high school counselor. The youth indicates he is confused by his feelings for his father, who is a traveling consultant and frequently away from home. He misses his father, wants him to be at home (return from his trips), and yet has feelings of anger when he does come home. He finds that he develops reasons to be away from the home when he knows his father is returning. While away he feels a gnawing desire to be there for his father’s return. The counselor would identify this as which one of Ainsworth’s attachment patterns?

John’s parents are trying to teach him to pick up his toys. They decide first to reward him when he walks near the pile of toys. This is an example of?

An employee is congratulated twice in one week by his boss but is not congratulated again for a month. Which one of the following reinforcement schedules does this follow?

A person is afraid to receive a flu shot because it is painful. She is also fearful of getting the flu. Which of Dollard and Miller’s conflicts is she facing?

If modeling were used to teach adolescents how to say “no” to drugs, which would make the most useful model?

A couple has been referred to the school counselor because their first-grade boy has some imaginary friends. Their friends implied that the boy may be developmentally delayed. They have a son about the same age who gave this up some time ago. They thought the couple should check for autism spectrum because the child tells others that he has friends, gives them names and that he sees them at night in his dreams. The counselor asked the couple for more child activity information which appeared to be normal for his age. The counselor decides the child is about to emerge into which of Piaget’s stages?

In which of Piaget’s stages of development does the child achieve object permanency?

At which of Piaget’s developmental stages does the child understand conservation?

A classroom teacher requested the school counselor to test a second-grade child to determine if the child is academically developmentally delayed, normal development, and academically advanced. The counselor indicated he lacked training for a comprehensive assessment but would test to determine if a referral was appropriate. The counselor asked the child, as one part of several short test items, to name the number next from the following: 21, 23, 26, 30, ____. The counselor was testing for which one of Piaget’s concepts?

According to Vygotsky the primary tool to progress developmentally is:

Which one of two concepts does Vygotsky consider important as the guiding process in development from dependent to independent learning?

What do problem-solvers do after they have found a solution to a problem? They:

A counselor is helping a client to avoid negative self-talk. Each time the client says something negative about himself, the counselor yells, “STOP.” Which technique is the counselor putting to use?

The treatment of choice for substance use addiction is:

What treatment would be recommended if a counselor was practicing harm reduction with a client experiencing an alcohol use disorder?

Biofeedback and neuroscience feedback have identified a relationship that exists between biological and psychological functioning and can be measured. Two relationships that can be measured are?

The General Adaptation Syndrome was developed by: