1. Who is credited with conducting the first systematic study of developmental
psychology?
Correct : A. charles darwin
2. One among the options is not dominated in the field with their extensive theories of
human development.
Correct : D. b f skinner
3. The id is the part of our personality which is made up of ……………. drives.
Correct : C. instinctual
4. Erik Erikson (1902-1990) proposed a theory of development which emphasized the
role of ………………….. .
Correct : C. social and cultural factors in development
5. Stages of psychosocial development: industry versus inferiority
Correct : A. 6 to 11 years
6. Stages of psychosocial development: Basic trust versus mistrust
Correct : B. birth to 1 year
7. Watson wanted to create an objective science of psychology and he believed that ………………. events should be the focus of the study.
Correct : B. directly observable
8. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model of human development include
Correct : A. microsystem, mesosystem, exosystems, macrosystem, chronosystem
9. As per Piaget children's ………….. development is progressing through four stages.
Correct : C. cognitive
10. Sensorimotor stage of development is lasting from …………….. of age.
Correct : A. birth to about 2 years
11. Vygotsky emphasis the role of ……………………… in development of a child.
Correct : C. social interaction
12. Which is the developmental stage in Eriksons theory represent 1 to 3 years
Correct : A. autonomy vs. shame
13. In which stage of Ericksons development theory an individual develop a sense of mastery over aspects of one's environment, cope with challenges and increase
responsibility.
Correct : B. initiative vs. guilt
14. An unconscious reflex action in newborn child i.e., If their palms are touched, they
will make a very tight fist which is called as.
Correct : D. darwinian reflex
15. Which achievement is considered an important milestone in fine motor
development?
Correct : B. palmar grasp
16. ………………. is a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated exposure to the
same stimulus.
Correct : A. habituation
17. Children are born with reflexes that allow them to suck and grasp and they begin to
follow objects with their eyes. What are these reflexes known as
Correct : A. simple reflexes
18. Piaget’s had a background in Biology. What he called this theoretical framework?
Correct : C. genetic epistemology
19. What was Piaget’s primary interest in human organisms?
Correct : A. how knowledge developed
20. According Piaget the basic unit with which the cognitive structure is built up is ……………………… .
Correct : A. schema
21. According to Piaget biologically every living organism would like to remain in the
existing state of ………………………… without being disturbed.
Correct : D. equilibriu
22. Children of the same age may …………….. in terms of possession of mental abilities
Correct : A. differ
23. Sensory-motor Stage
Correct : B. from birth to about 2 years
24. Which stage the child begins to utter words to ask for something rather than just
reaching out to get it
Correct : A. preoperational stage
25. His thinking becomes more logical and systematic
Correct : B. concrete operational stage
26. The developmental stage in which the child is no longer ego-centric in his thinking. He does not think of himself as the centre of the external world and does not perceive
the world only from his own standpoint.
Correct : C. concrete operational stage
27. Generalizations and framing of rules by operating in abstract terms become quite
possible at this stage.
Correct : D. preoperational stage
28. Human languages have a ……………………. structure.
Correct : A. hierarchical
29. The smallest speech units in a language that can be distinguished perceptually.
Correct : A. phonemes
30. …………………………are the smallest units of meaning in a language.
Correct : B. morphemes
31. …………………… is a system of rules that specify how words can be arranged into
sentences.
Correct : A. syntax
32. .…………………. is the knowledge, independent of semantics and syntax etc, of
what kind of response would be appropriate in a given social situation.
Correct : B. pragmatics
33. …………………….. is the stage at which the individually meaningless phonemes
are assembled to produce meaningful portions of language, called morphemes.
Correct : A. semantics
34. Attachment theory is the joint work of ……………… and Mary Ainsworth.
Correct : C. john bowlby
35. …………….. is a psychological, evolutionary, and ethological theory
concerning relationships between humans
Correct : A. attachment theory
36. Which mostly affects the development of emotional self-regulation?
Correct : A. temperament
37. In child-to-adult relationships, the child's tie is called the "attachment" and the
caregiver's reciprocal equivalent is referred to as ……………….. .
Correct : B. care-giving bond
38. Who is known as the principle attachment figure?
Correct : C. mothers
39. ……………….. is the anticipation or fear of being cut off from the attachment figure.
Correct : A. anxiety
40. In which stage attachment behaviours such as clinging and following decline and selfreliance increases.
Correct : C. middle childhood
41. Types of Bowlby’s theory of attachment (Child and caregiver behaviour patterns before the age of 18 months)
Correct : B. secure, avoidant, ambivalent/resistant & disorganized
42. In which attachment pattern of Bowlby children show a pattern of alternate
aggression and withdrawal?
Correct : D. disorganized
43. Who extended the Attachment theory to adult romantic relationships?
Correct : A. cindy hazan and phillip shaver
44. In Freud's view, development is a …………….. process.
Correct : B. discontinuous
45. In Freud’s oral developmental stage the pleasure is centered around the ……………..
Correct : A. mouth
46. Freud's theory relied mainly on the use of methods such as
Correct : D. free association, dream analysis, case study & introspection
47. Who proposed the psychosocial theory?
Correct : A. erik erickson
48. Watson applied ………….. principles of classical conditioning to children's
behaviour.
Correct : B. pavlov\s
49. What is the name of the child whom the classical condioning was tested by J.
Watson?
Correct : A. albert
50. Who proposed the operant conditioning learning theory?
Correct : B. skinner
51. Who among the learning theorist proposed the Modelling principle?
Correct : B. skinner
52. Strength of Bandura's social learning theory is its emphasis on particular aspects of
the environment, such as the nature of the ……………. available to children.
Correct : A. role models
53. Which is the correct sequence of stages in Piaget's theory of cognitive development?
Correct : A. sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
54. During which stage of cognitive development do children acquire object permanence?
Correct : A. sensorimotor
55. As a child observes, liquid is transferred from a tall, thin tube into a short, wide jar.
The child is asked if there is now less liquid in order to determine if she has mastered:
Correct : C. the concept of conservation.
56. Piaget held that egocentrism is characteristic of the:
Correct : B. preoperational stage.
57. According to Piaget, the ability to think logically about abstract propositions is
indicative of the stage of:
Correct : C. formal operations.
58. Whose stage theory of moral development was based on how people reasoned about
ethical dilemmas?
Correct : D. kohlberg
59. To which of Kohlberg's levels would moral reasoning based on the existence of
fundamental human rights pertain?
Correct : C. postconventional morality
60. Sam, a junior in high school, regularly attends church because his family and friends
think he should. Which stage of moral reasoning is Sam in?
Correct : B. conventional
61. In preconventional morality, the person:
Correct : C. obeys to avoid punishment or to gain concrete rewards.
62. According to Erikson, the central psychological challenges pertaining to adolescence,
young adulthood, and middle age, respectively, are:
Correct : A. identity formation; intimacy; generativity.
63. In Erikson's theory, individuals generally focus on developing during adolescence and
then during young adulthood.
Correct : A. identity; intimacy
64. After a series of unfulfilling relationships, 30-year-old Carlos tells a friend that he doesn't want to marry because he is afraid of losing his freedom and independence.
Erikson would say that Carlos is having difficulty with the psychosocial task of:
Correct : C. intimacy versus isolation.
65. Motor development in babies develops in a proximodistal fashion. This is best
described as:
Correct : A. from nearest to the center of the body to the farthest from the center
66. According to Sigmund Freud, what is the correct order of the five psychosexual
stages of development?
Correct : B. oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
67. Authoritative parents can best be defined as:
Correct : D. supportive parents who discuss their rules and policies with their children
68. Which of the following is NOT one of Kohlberg’s stages of moral reasoning?
Correct : B. unconventional
69. According to the cognitive developmental perspective of development, the child is
______ and development is _____.
Correct : D. active, discontinuous
70. Which of the following statements about the heritability of temperament is TRUE?
Correct : C. heritability is demonstrated by mz twins being more similar than dz twins
71. By what age do children typically succeed on false-belief and appearance reality
problems?
Correct : C. 5 years
72. Which of the following comparisons between Piaget and Kohlberg’s theories of
moral judgement is TRUE:
Correct : A. both agreed that to young children, right and wrong is determined by obedience to rules and authority figures
73. At what age do children begin to differentiate between others’ emotional distress and
their own?
Correct : B. 6-14 months
74. The realization that all sets of a particular number of objects (e.g. 5) have something
in common is referred to as:
Correct : A. numerical equality
75. Piaget believed that young infants’ failure to reach for a hidden object indicated that
they:
Correct : B. were unaware of the existence of the object
76. At what age do children typically develop gender identity (the ability to label each
correctly)?
Correct : B. 2-1/2 years
77. Which of Erikson's Psychosocial Stages characterizes adolescence?
Correct : C. identity vs identity diffusion
78. The rooting reflex occurs when a:
Correct : B. newborn\s cheek is touched.
79. In Piaget's theory, conservation is to egocentrism as the stage is to the stage.
Correct : D. concrete operational; preoperational
80. In Piaget's stage of concrete operational intelligence, the child acquires an
understanding of the principle of:
Correct : A. conservation.
81. In a 1998 movie, a young girl finds that a gaggle of geese follows her wherever she goes because she was the first “object” they saw after they were born. This is an
example of:
Correct : B. imprinting.
82. The developmental theorist who suggested that securely attached children develop an
attitude of basic trust is:
Correct : D. erikson.
83. Which of the following was not mentioned in the text as a criticism of Kohlberg's
theory of moral development?
Correct : A. it does not account for the fact that the development of moral reasoning is culture- specific.
84. In Erikson's theory, individuals generally focus on developing during adolescence
and then during young adulthood.
Correct : A. identity; intimacy
85. Which of the following theories best exemplifies continuity?
Correct : B. vygotsky\s sociocultural theory
86. Jean Piaget defined egocentrism as:
Correct : B. the idea that preschool children cannot see things from another\s point of view
87. Monica is extremely neat and orderly. She cannot stand it when people touch things on her desk. She also has a problem lending money to even her closest friends. Freud
would say she is stuck in what psychosexual stage?
Correct : B. anal
88. According to Erik Erikson, what is one major conflict teenagers deal with during the identity versus role confusion stage of psychosocial
development?
Correct : A. finding a more purposeful life as an adult
89. According to Erik Erikson, as a young adult you are most interested in developing:
Correct : D. intimacy
90. As children begin their elementary school years, they enter Erikson's stage of:
Correct : D. industry versus inferiority
91. Which of the following is a similarity between the cognitive developmental theory of
Piaget and the moral developmental theory of Kohlberg?
Correct : A. both theories stress the importance of changes in thinking in their stages.
92. According to social learning theory, gender identity is I. A process which occurs when young children unconsciously identify with the same-sex parent. II. A result of being positively reinforced for acting in ways that conform to male and female roles.
III. Learned through observing and imitating role models like their parents.
Correct : D. ii and iii only
93. Which of the following theories best exemplifies continuity?
Correct : B. vygotsky\s sociocultural theory
94. Which of the following reflexes is not a reflex infants enter the world equipped with?
Correct : D. licking
95. Temperament is best defined as:
Correct : D. psychological and physiological personality traits a young child models from his