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CSS Psychology Social and Developmental Psychology Flashcards
51 question-and-answer cards covering Social and Developmental Psychology as it is examined in CSS Psychology. 24 of them are printed below, taken from across the deck — no signup, no paywall on the preview.
24 sample cards from the Social and Developmental Psychology deck
Sampled from the end of the deck, so these are different cards from the ones shown on the syllabus page.
What is cognitive dissonance (Festinger)?
The psychological discomfort that arises from holding contradictory attitudes or when behavior conflicts with attitudes, motivating attitude change to reduce the discomfort.
What are the two routes to persuasion in the Elaboration Likelihood Model (Petty & Cacioppo)?
The central route (careful processing of message content/arguments) and the peripheral route (reliance on superficial cues like attractiveness or credibility).
Name the four key elements of persuasive communication (Yale attitude change approach).
The source (communicator), the message, the channel (medium), and the audience.
What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
A compliance strategy in which agreeing to a small initial request increases the likelihood of agreeing to a larger later request.
What are social norms?
Shared rules or expectations within a group or society that prescribe appropriate behavior in given situations.
Distinguish descriptive norms from injunctive norms.
Descriptive norms describe what people actually do; injunctive norms prescribe what people ought to do (what is approved/disapproved).
What is the norm of reciprocity?
The social expectation that people will respond to a positive action with another positive action—repaying others for what they have provided.
What is the social responsibility norm?
The expectation that people should help those who are dependent on them or in need, regardless of return benefit.
What characterizes physical development across the lifespan?
Changes in bodily structure, motor skills, brain growth, height, weight, and biological maturation from conception through aging.
What is the cephalocaudal trend of physical development?
Growth and motor control proceed from the head downward to the rest of the body (head before trunk before legs).
What is the proximodistal trend of physical development?
Growth and motor control proceed from the center of the body outward to the extremities (trunk before arms before hands/fingers).
What are the three stages of prenatal physical development?
The germinal stage (0–2 weeks), the embryonic stage (3–8 weeks), and the fetal stage (9 weeks to birth).
What is a teratogen?
Any environmental agent (e.g., drugs, alcohol, viruses, radiation) that can cause harm or birth defects during prenatal development.
Who proposed the major theory of cognitive development based on stages?
Jean Piaget.
List Piaget's four stages of cognitive development in order.
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
What cognitive milestone defines Piaget's sensorimotor stage (0–2 years)?
Object permanence—understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of sight.
What limitations characterize Piaget's preoperational stage (2–7 years)?
Egocentrism (inability to take others' viewpoints) and lack of conservation; symbolic/representational thought begins.
What is conservation, and in which Piagetian stage is it mastered?
The understanding that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape or appearance; mastered in the concrete operational stage (7–11 years).
What thinking ability emerges in Piaget's formal operational stage (11+ years)?
Abstract, hypothetical, and logical reasoning, including systematic problem-solving.
What is Vygotsky's 'Zone of Proximal Development'?
The gap between what a learner can do independently and what they can achieve with guidance from a more knowledgeable other.
What is attachment, and who identified its styles via the 'Strange Situation'?
An emotional bond between infant and caregiver; styles (secure, avoidant, resistant/ambivalent) were identified by Mary Ainsworth.
Name the eight stages of Erikson's psychosocial development theory.
Trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame/doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. role confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and integrity vs. despair.
What are Kohlberg's three levels of moral development?
Preconventional, conventional, and postconventional morality.
List the major stages (periods) of the human lifespan in developmental psychology.
Prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood (old age).
What this deck covers
The Social and Developmental Psychology deck follows the CSS Psychology Social and Developmental Psychology syllabus — 2 chapters and 10 topics — so questions land on material that is genuinely examinable rather than trivia around it. That works out to roughly 25.5 cards per chapter.
Answers are written to be recallable, not just readable — averaging about 117 characters, which is long enough to carry the reasoning and short enough to say out loud.
A deck like this earns its keep on the second and third pass. Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then use the cards to find the specific facts that have not stuck.
Social and Developmental Psychology flashcards FAQ
How many Social and Developmental Psychology flashcards are in this CSS Psychology deck?
51 cards. This page previews 24 of them, sampled evenly across the deck so you can judge the difficulty before installing anything.
Are these CSS Psychology flashcards free?
Yes. The preview here is free to read with no signup, and the full 51-card deck is free inside the Examius app.
What do the Social and Developmental Psychology cards cover?
They follow the CSS Psychology Social and Developmental Psychology syllabus — 2 chapters and 10 topics — so the questions track what is actually examinable.
How should I use these flashcards?
Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then drill the deck. Examius schedules each card with spaced repetition, so cards you keep missing come back sooner and ones you know drift further apart.