MCQ Bank
Metalinguistic awareness comes at about _________ years of age and child starts getting the apparent and hidden meanings of language.
- A) 4
- B) 3
- C) 6
- D) 5
Which of the following theory posits that Language Acquisition Device (LDA) biologically prepares infants to learn rules of language through universal grammar?
- A) Nativist
- B) Humanists
- C) Interactionists
- D) Empircists
According to Piaget, the child performs few actions within its own self, like sucking his/her thumb feels good, so he/she sucks some more. It is referred as:
- A) Territory circular reactions
- B) Self circular reactions
- C) Primary circular reactions
- D) Secondary circular reactions
Which of the following type of narrative resembles to narration of an adult which indicates that child is ready for learning narrative styles from adults?
- A) Leapfrog narratives
- B) Classical narratives
- C) Chronological narratives
- D) Operant narratives
Emotions can be BEST reflected by:
- A) Voice
- B) Facial expressions
- C) Sitting posture
- D) Hand movement
Media plays focus on which of the following aspect of a child’s development?
- A) Recreation
- B) Movement
- C) Role playing
- D) Creativity
Self-consciousness, life-threatening reenactment, abrupt shift in relationships, depression and social withdrawal are few of the reactions to stress in age of:
- A) Twelve to eighteen years of age
- B) Nineteen to twenty two years of age
- C) One to five years of age
- D) Six to eleven years of age
Few factors have been found influential with reference to individual differences in language development. These factors include all EXCEPT:
- A) Language environment
- B) Temperament
- C) Temperature
- D) Gender
Erick Erickson accepted many of Freud’s ideas EXCEPT:
- A) Psychosexual stages of development
- B) Dream analysis
- C) Over emphasis on sexuality
- D) Parts of mind
Which of the following explains Cannon-Bard theory of emotions?
- A) Stimulus --> Autonomic arousal --> Emotion
- B) Stimulus --> Emotion --> Autonomic arousal
- C) Stimulus --> Subcortex --> Autonomic arousal + Emotion
- D) Stimulus --> Autonomic arousal --> Appraisal ? Emotion
Which of the following range of BMI indicates that a person is normal in weight?
- A) 25.0 – 29.9
- B) 35.0 – 39.9
- C) 30.0 – 34.9
- D) 18.6 – 24.9
Amenorrhea is present in anorexia nervosa. This term means:
- A) Disturbance in menstrual cycle
- B) None
- C) Absence of menstrual cycle
- D) Excessive menstrual cycle
Which of the following area of brain plays a role in understanding of language?
- A) Broca’s area
- B) Wernicke's area
- C) Medulla oblongata
- D) Pones
“Aspects of Child Life and Education” was published in 1921 by ___________ including his 22 years of experience on adolescence research.
- A) William James
- B) George Stanley Hall
- C) J.B. Watson
- D) Sigmund Freud
According to Harry Stack Sullivan, which of the following mode of interactive experience includes diversified experiences which are not logically connected?
- A) Flotaxic
- B) Syntaxic
- C) Parataxic
- D) Prototaxic
At the age of two years, vocabulary spurts occur in children. In this phase, a child quickly learns to associate the names of the things which is known as:
- A) Association
- B) Assimilation
- C) Fast mapping
- D) Growth spurts
Laughter starts developing in children at the age of:
- A) 3 – 4 months
- B) 5 – 6 months
- C) 1 – 2 months
- D) 7 – 8 months
In the course of language development, during word production children just call one word to explain a whole event. This is called:
- A) Pictographic period
- B) Isographic period
- C) Holophrastic period
- D) Sarcastic period
With reference to first speech sounds, cooing usually starts at ___________ months of age.
- A) 1
- B) 2
- C) 3
- D) 4
Which one of the following theories is based on many different cultural studies where people of different cultures judged the basic emotions similar on the basis of facial expressions?
- A) Social learning theory
- B) Psychosocial theory
- C) Differential emotions theory
- D) Universal emotions theory