Unit 3: Development & Learning
Psychology · Unit 3 · Paper 2

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.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 27 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 2” 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
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Learned helplessness

2

Generalization vs discrimination

3

Vygotsky's zone of proximal development

4

Latent learning

5

Piaget's stages

6

Positive vs negative reinforcement

7

Conservation

8

Observational learning

9

Teratogens

10

Erikson's psychosocial stages

11

Attachment styles

12

Fixed vs variable interval

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Fixed vs variable ratio

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Kohlberg's moral stages

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: UCS, UCR, CS, CR

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.