Psychology Answers

Thabo has always wanted to be a doctor. His parents pushed him in biology and chemistry. When he applied for university, he declared his major as pre-medical and only took classes that would help him to study medicine. According to the identity status paradigm, in which stage is Thabo?

• A. identity diffusion
• B. moratorium
• C. identity foreclosure
• D. identity lease

Choose the INCORRECT statement.

• A. Adolescents are faced with various developmental tasks.
• B. Adolescents have the cognitive ability to formulate, examine and draw inferences from hypotheses.
• C. Adolescents are capable of thinking abstractly.
• D. The majority of adolescents are incapable of forming rational opinions about alternative values and religious practices

Choose the INCORRECT statement.

Piaget believed that people constantly adapt to their environment and, in doing so, use their minds to organise the world in ways that they can …

• A. clearly explain to other individuals.
• B. make sense of.
• C. comprehend.
• D. understand.

Brain-based education is an interdisciplinary study of human cognition that looks at the psychological, computational and biological mechanisms that have an impact on human thought or cognition.

Choose the INCORRECT statement about brain development as specified by neuroscience.

• A. The brain’s capacity for change does not increase with age.
• B. The interactive influence of genes and experience shape the developing brain.
• C. The brain develops throughout the life span.
• D. Cognitive, emotional and social capacities are inextricably intertwined throughout the life course.

Choose the INCORRECT statement.

Adolescents who suffer from bulimia nervosa may

• A . eat all day and then vomit to get rid of the food.
• B. eat a lot of food to compensate for not receiving love and attention from their parents.
• C. have a near-normal body weight.
• D. force themselves to diet obsessively.

5. How does the study of twins help us understand the nature-nurture controversy with respect to intelligence better?