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Child Development Test - 2

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What is the final step in remembering?

  1. Retrieval

  2. Storage

  3. Encoding

  4. Attention


Correct Option: A

Which of the following refers to the classification of items to be remembered into meaningful groups or categories?

  1. Selection

  2. Rehearsal

  3. Organization

  4. Mystification


Correct Option: C

Which developmental psychologist suggested that young children could not lie, as this requires a level of cognitive sophistication which is beyond their capability?

  1. Piaget

  2. Vygotsky

  3. Ceci

  4. Wellman


Correct Option: A

An infant banging objects together to make a noise is an example of

  1. Sensorimotor play

  2. Language play

  3. Pretend play

  4. Attention-seeking behaviour


Correct Option: A

Which of the following is a social factor in suggestibility?

  1. Speed of encoding

  2. Understanding language

  3. Use of scripts

  4. Use of mnemonics


Correct Option: B

At the age of 2-4 years, which of the following activities is preferred more by girls than by boys?

  1. Dressing up

  2. Playing with transportation toys

  3. Kicking balls

  4. Rough-and-tumble


Correct Option: A

Which tradition in psychology does the encoding-storage-retrieval model of memory follow?

  1. Behaviourism

  2. The information-processing approach

  3. Empiricism

  4. Nativism


Correct Option: B

Which of the following best describes the role of siblings in the development of social competence?

  1. A source of social experience

  2. A source of companionship

  3. Destructive competition

  4. Non-destructive competition


Correct Option: A

Prosocial behavior means

  1. social interactions with others

  2. actions that help others

  3. actions that help society

  4. actions that are intended to help others


Correct Option: A

Which of the following is the best definition of personality traits?

  1. Behavioural dispositions which change over time

  2. Relatively stable dispositions to act in particular ways

  3. Relatively stable dispositions to act in unpredictable ways

  4. Reflections of how prosocial someone is


Correct Option: B

According to Piaget, young children's moral judgments are

  1. governed by a concern for other's feelings

  2. governed by a concern for their own feelings

  3. influenced by the intentions of others

  4. governed by a respect for adults and for adults rules


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is an example of adolescent's increased flexibility of perception?

  1. Their ability to perceive only one object in 'ambiguous figures'

  2. They do not mind when daily events (e.g. meals) happen at unfamiliar times

  3. Their ability to touch their own toes

  4. Their ability to identify both the components and the whole in figures portraying one object composed of several other objects


Correct Option: D

In Lewinian theory, what is the name given to the forces that propel individuals within their life spaces?

  1. Balances

  2. People magnets

  3. Life events

  4. Valences


Correct Option: D

At which of Kohlberg's stages, the individuals are most likely to focus on the violation of laws and rules?

  1. Stage 1

  2. Stage 2

  3. Stage 3

  4. Stage 4


Correct Option: D

Who pronounced that adolescence is a time of storm and stress?

  1. Anna Freud

  2. Harry Stack Sullivan

  3. Erik Erikson

  4. G. Stanley Hall


Correct Option: D

What term did Piaget give to the mental operation of altering realities back and forth without physically changing them?

  1. Intrapropositional thinking

  2. Interpropositional thinking

  3. Preoperational thought

  4. Reversibility


Correct Option: D

Which of the following develops the most during adolescence?

  1. Arithmetic

  2. Digit span

  3. Vocabulary

  4. Comprehension


Correct Option: C

Which of the following changes the most during puberty?

  1. Personality

  2. Emotion

  3. Behaviour

  4. Interaction with parents


Correct Option: D

Who first dedicated research towards the development of personal social identity in adolescence?

  1. A. Freud

  2. Goldberg

  3. Erikson

  4. Brown


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is/are part of the definition of learning?

  1. change in behavior

  2. relatively permanent

  3. brought about by experience

  4. all of the above


Correct Option: D

Who wrote the influential government report of 1967 which argued for a 'child-centered' approach to education?

  1. Piaget

  2. Baker

  3. Plowden

  4. Froebel


Correct Option: C

According to Piaget, social interaction between preoperational peers may stimulate decentration because

  1. two heads are better than one

  2. two egocentric views conflict

  3. young children are very cooperative

  4. young children argue readily


Correct Option: B

In classical conditioning, an unlearned, inborn reaction to an unconditioned stimulus is a(n)

  1. unconditioned stimulus

  2. conditioned stimulus

  3. unconditioned response

  4. conditioned response


Correct Option: C

Pavlov's initial interest in classical conditioning was stimulated when he observed his research dogs salivating at the sight of

  1. food

  2. the attendants

  3. saliva

  4. the food dish


Correct Option: B

Classical conditioning apparently plays a role in the development of

  1. resistance to disease

  2. allergic reactions

  3. sexual arousal

  4. all of the above


Correct Option: D
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