MCQ Bank
During middle childhood all of the following play an important role in our perceptual cognitive development EXCEPT:
- A) Number concept
- B) Death concept
- C) Time concept
- D) Responsibility concept
When individuals behave in a desirable manner they get a reward but failure to perform the desirable behavior also results in withdrawal of that reward. This behavioral technique is known as what?
- A) Assertion
- B) Token economy
- C) Modeling
- D) Aversive conditioning
Selman has proposed which of the following theory?
- A) Cognitive development
- B) Social development
- C) Biological development
- D) Moral developmental
All of the following are the dramatic physical changes of adolescence EXCEPT:
- A) Presence of sperms in males
- B) Development of molar teeth
- C) Beginning of menstruation for girls
- D) Maturation of the reproductive organs
Which of the following children are much better than preoperational children at classifying, working with numbers, dealing with concepts of time and space and distinguishing reality from fantasy?
- A) Formal operational
- B) Concrete operational
- C) Post conventional
- D) Sensorimotor
According to Kohlberg, most children achieved conventional morality at which of the following age?
- A) 14 years
- B) 2 years
- C) 10 years
- D) 18 years
Who among the following is acknowledged as the major figure in the study of moral development?
- A) Jean Piaget
- B) Albert Bandura
- C) Lawrence Kohlberg
- D) Erik Erikson
Which of the following function is the major important development of the Preoperational stage?
- A) Linguistic
- B) Symbolic
- C) Associative
- D) Logical
At which Kohlberg stages of moral reasoning, individuals start to understand that there is a difference between moral and legal right?
- A) Stage 4
- B) Stage 5
- C) Stage 2
- D) Stage 3
Which syndrome is associated with anorexia?
- A) Down syndrome
- B) Turner syndrome
- C) Klinefelter syndrome
- D) Noonan syndrome
Which one is an ability to share the emotions of another person in order to understand his or her needs?
- A) Antisocial behavior
- B) Altruism
- C) Prosocial behavior
- D) Empathy
Last week I ate lot of meat and felt sick. It happened yesterday too. It means eating meat in excess makes me sick. This is an example of _____ reasoning.
- A) Transductive
- B) Deductive
- C) Illogical
- D) Inductive
The symbolic function is the ability to ______________ by using symbols.
- A) Learn
- B) Perceive
- C) React
- D) Respond
The middle childhood generally covers a period ranging from _______ to ______ years.
- A) 4, 8
- B) 6, 9
- C) 3, 8
- D) 5, 10
"Eating a lot of candy can make people sick. I ate a lot of candy today, and so I may get sick" is the example of which of the following reasoning?
- A) Centralization
- B) Deduction
- C) Egocentrism
- D) Induction
Most children are able to add, subtract and deal with multiplication, division and simple fraction at the age of _____________ years.
- A) 10
- B) 5
- C) 12
- D) 8
Coppersmith concluded that people based their self-image on the basis of different criterions. Which of the following is not one of them?
- A) Economical status
- B) Significance
- C) Competence
- D) Power
What is the primary cognitive limitation of the preoperational stage?
- A) Narcissism
- B) Bizarre behavior
- C) Ethnocentrism
- D) Egocentrism
Which of the following principle states that object properties will remain same despite changes made in their shape or physical arrangement?
- A) Death concept
- B) Number concept
- C) Form concept
- D) Law of conservation
Which of the following consists on two things: real self and ideal self?
- A) Self esteem
- B) Self awareness
- C) Self concept
- D) Self actualization