Psychology · Unit 3 · Paper 1

Development & Learning unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 27 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 31 min 28 points0/17 attempted

Piaget's stages

Fixed vs variable interval

Punishment vs negative reinforcement

Attachment styles

Assimilation vs accommodation

Classical conditioning

Fixed vs variable ratio

Learned helplessness

Latent learning

Critical vs sensitive periods

Vygotsky's zone of proximal development

Acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Positive vs negative reinforcement

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Taste aversion

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Teratogens

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Kohlberg's moral stages

3 pts

Free response

4 pts

A therapist treats a client with a severe fear of flying. The client reports that the fear began after a turbulent flight three years ago and now avoids air travel entirely, which has cost the client a promotion.

Explain how classical conditioning could account for the development of this fear, identifying the UCS, CS and CR.

Explain how operant conditioning accounts for the maintenance of the avoidance behavior.

Describe how systematic desensitization would be used to treat this client.

Explain how a cognitive-behavioral therapist would approach this case differently.