MCQ Bank
Which of the following refers to the interruption of speech fluency through blocked, prolonged or repeated words or syllables?
- A) Autism
- B) Dyslexia
- C) Delayed speech
- D) Shuttering
Which of the following is essential for children's judgment of their own abilities, influence and popularity?
- A) Self esteem
- B) Self actualization
- C) Self recognition
- D) Self definition
Which of the following is the most important relationship that a child ever forms?
- A) Sibling and cousins
- B) Early attachment
- C) Peer group
- D) Stranger recognition
At one moment child is frustrated and tearful while at the next moment will be laughing loudly; are the features of which of the following disorders?
- A) School phobia
- B) Hyperactive disorder
- C) Avoidant disorder
- D) Separation anxiety
As a child enters the preoperational stage they can now ________.
- A) Engage in a higher level of representation
- B) Use words to symbolize things
- C) Use objects to symbolize things
- D) All of the given options
Which of the following is the period of pre-operational thoughts?
- A) Infancy
- B) Adolescence
- C) The early childhood
- D) Early adulthood
Most studies support the idea that children who have _____________ are less likely to indulge in sex-type activities.
- A) Divorce mothers
- B) Widow mothers
- C) Single mothers
- D) Working mothers
Which of the following means inability of see things from another’s point of views?
- A) Egocentrism
- B) Centralization
- C) Irreversibility
- D) Transductive reasoning
When two mental structures combine, they form a third structure e.g. 4+3=7. This phenomenon is known as what?
- A) Closure
- B) Associatively
- C) Reversibility
- D) Identity
Not only does _____________ represent a strange and puzzling phenomenon for young minds to understand but it also an extremely difficult concept for adults to explain.
- A) Death
- B) Parental love
- C) Sex
- D) Sense of responsibility
According to Piaget, principle of conservation develops at what stage?
- A) Infancy
- B) Preoperational
- C) Formal operational
- D) Concrete operational
Who among the family plays an instrumental role in launching children into society, more concerned with enhancing boy’s masculinity and girl’s feminity?
- A) Mother
- B) Grandmother
- C) Nannies
- D) Father
Bulimia has been described as which of the following?
- A) Down syndrome
- B) Fetal alcohol syndrome
- C) Turner syndrome
- D) Binge purge syndrome
Intense fear of becoming obese is a characteristic of:
- A) Down Syndrome
- B) Bulimia Nervosa
- C) Anorexia Nervosa
- D) Turner Syndrome
Hyperactive children have great difficulty in which of the following?
- A) Interpretation of the world
- B) Unable to recognize close relations
- C) Understanding instructions and finishing tasks
- D) Reaction to stimuli
When does adolescence start?
- A) 13 for boys and girls
- B) When you achieve sexual maturity
- C) At the end of childhood
- D) 10 for girls, 13 for boys
Which one of the following statement about cognitive development is INCORRECT in adolescence?
- A) During adolescence, many individuals are able to deal with more abstract cognitive tasks
- B) Piaget referred to adolescence as the period of Reflex actions
- C) Deals with logical reasoning
- D) There is an intellectual growth spurt during puberty
In which of the following, anxiety and abdominal pains develop when the child is faced with having to go to school?
- A) Anorexia
- B) Social phobia
- C) Agora phobia
- D) School phobia
Which of the following has become a major health issue among children of 6-11 years?
- A) Obesity
- B) Heart attack
- C) Diabetes
- D) Pimples and wrinkles
The term “adult” came from the ________________ word “adhuls” which means to grow.
- A) Latin
- B) Greek
- C) English
- D) Dutch