MCQ Bank
In 1951, who concluded on the basis of their experiment that chimpanzees can’t be taught language as they do not have vocal apparatus like humans to make speech like verbalizations?
- A) Savage-Rumbaugh
- B) Noam Chomsky
- C) Hayes and Hayes
- D) Gardner and Gardner
In Harry Stack Sullivan’s theory, which one of the following stages of development has been characterized by sexual activity?
- A) Late adolescence
- B) Adulthood
- C) Preadolescence
- D) Adolescence
Helplessness, passivity to stress, generalized fear, heightened arousal and cognitive confusion are few of the reactions to stress in age of:
- A) Nineteen to twenty two years of age
- B) Six to eleven years of age
- C) One to five years of age
- D) Twelve to eighteen years of age
Sara’s mother died last month. Sara was in grief but kept on realizing that life has to go on and she must try to move ahead. This example refers to which of the following mechanism of coping with stress?
- A) Biological
- B) Cognitive
- C) Intentioned
- D) Behavioral
If a person’s second language replaces his first language, it is known as ______________.
- A) Additive bilingualism
- B) Successive bilingualism
- C) Subtractive bilingualism
- D) Cultural bilingualism
Which of the following expression of emotion exists in children at the time of birth?
- A) Surprise
- B) Smile
- C) Anger
- D) Fear
Based on Mary Ainsworth’s research on attachment, when child uses care giver as a secure base and shows distress at separation, it refers to which of the following?
- A) Secure attachment
- B) Insecure avoidant attachment
- C) Insecure resistant attachment
- D) Disoriented attachment
Ahmad, a four years preschooler, narrated the whole day to his mother which he spent with his friends in school. His narration included few general evaluations without any specifications. This example BEST refers to:
- A) Chronological narratives
- B) Classical narratives
- C) Leapfrog narratives
- D) Operant narratives
All of the following can be considered correct about emotions EXCEPT:
- A) Emotional states do not take time to diminish
- B) Emotions are physiological and cognitive processes
- C) Emotions energize behavior
- D) Emotional states come abruptly
Sometimes old people feel that they are more vulnerable and feeble, because of which they feel:
- A) Pediatric trauma
- B) Medical trauma
- C) Psychological trauma
- D) Geriatric trauma
Who emphasized on the social interaction an individual has in forming one’s personality or to remove conflicts?
- A) Harry Stack Sullivan
- B) William James
- C) George Stanley Hall
- D) Sigmund Freud
In the course of language development, children first make two-word utterances that is known as
- A) Infant directed speech
- B) Early learnt speech
- C) Child directed speech
- D) Telegraphic speech
In which one of the following spans, children start showing separation anxiety?
- A) Birth - 6 weeks
- B) 3 years
- C) 8 to 24 months
- D) 6 weeks to 8 months