MCQs of Psychology - Infancy And Childhood – Multiple Choice Question

Question 1 of 20

1. Question

Which of the following is NOT the case regarding human infants?

Infants are independent upon others for the provision of basic needs.
Infants are unable to process perceptual information.
Babies have an array of perceptual and physical capacities which enable them to engage with the world in more complex ways than once believed.
Some of the baby's capacities seem to be presant at birth. some develop rapidly during the first year or so, and some very according to the opportunities for exercising them.

Question 2 of 20

2. Question

Which reflex in infants ensures that normal infants will respond to contact with the mothers’ breast by seeking out the nipple and feeding?

Rooting reflex
Moro reflex
Sucking reflex
(a) and (c)

Question 3 of 20

3. Question

Which of these are actual neonate reflexes?
1.The grasping reflex.
2.The ballistic reflex.
3.The stepping reflex.
4.The rooting reflex.

1 & 4
2 & 3
1, 2 & 4
1, 3 & 4

Question 4 of 20

4. Question

Which of the following statements about Jean Piaget is NOT true?

Piaget developed a model of cognitive development which holds that children's thinking progresses through a series of orderly stages.
According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage extends from approximately 2 to 7 years of age.
Piaget regarded the child in the sensorimotor stage as acting to learn about itself and its relations to the environment.
Piaget believed that children learn by doing.

Question 5 of 20

5. Question

According to Jean Piaget, what is the first stage of cognitive development, occurring from birth to two years of age?

Sensorimotor stage
Infant cognition stage
Object permanance
Sensory information stage

Question 6 of 20

6. Question

Which of the following assertions about object permanance is NOT actually the case?

In the first few months of life, the stability of objects in their lives is generally beyond infants' control.
Object permanence is the nation that an object exists only while we can see it.
Piaget maintained that very young infants have no conception of the durability objects.
Developments during the sensorimotor stage of development include learning to use objects as tools.

Question 7 of 20

7. Question

Which of the following statements is true in language development?

In their first few months of life, infants can discriminate among sounds in foreign languages that are not used in their own community
In their first few months of life, infants can only discriminate among sounds in the language of their own community
Towards the end of our teens, we begin to lose our sensitivity to phonetic contrasts in languages other that one(s) we learned as children
Language acquistion is complete by about age 4

Question 8 of 20

8. Question

Language in the form of phonemes of words is typically apparent in children of which age?

Six months
One year
Three months
Two years

Question 9 of 20

9. Question

Which of the following assertions about social development is INCORRECT?

The development of the two aspects of social selectivity-attachment and wariness of strangers-are cosely related in onset and development significance
According to Powlby through the course of the first attachment the infant begins to formulate an internal working model of what a relationship involves.
Through forming attachment the infant minimizes opportunities for nurturing and protection
Many social developmentalists believe that the formation of attachments is a vital aspect of early relations.

Question 10 of 20

10. Question

An infant acts relatively indifferent to her mother’s presence, does not seem greatly disturbed by her departure, and does not go to her when she returns. This is an example of which type of infant attachment style according to Marry Ainsworth and colleagues?

Secure attachment
Increase attachment /resistant
Insecure attachment/avoidant
Preoperational attachment

Question 11 of 20

11. Question

Which one of the statements below is correct in relation to children’s perceptual and motor development in the pre-school years?

By the age of 2, many children have begun to walk unaided manipulate objects independently
A 3-years-old is likely to be quite mobile but may find it difficult to run
A typical 3-years old has the same agility as a typical 5-years old
Skills such as throwing and catching jumping and hopping begin to emerge at around t to 8 years

Question 12 of 20

12. Question

According to Piaget, the preoperational stage refers to the development of which cognitive abilities in children?

Child begins to speak for the first time
Child begins to recognize faces of primary caregivers
Child begins to solve problems logically
Child begins to represent the world symbolically but remains intutive and egocentric

Question 13 of 20

13. Question

Which if any, of these statements about Piaget’s conservation test is accurate?

The conservation test can only be conducted with children aged under 5 years.
In the water conservation task, the level of liquid is maintained at exactly the same height when it is transferred to a differently shaped beaker
Th pre-operational child's judgement is swayed by one dimension, such as the fact that the contents of one beaker look taller than the other
None of the above

Question 14 of 20

14. Question

Which of the following statements about theory of mind is INCORRECT?

Theory of mind refers to the understanding that people have mental states that influence our behaviour
Findings from theory of mind studies indicate that pre-schoolers have few problems understanding is an outcome of their mental states.
Mental states include thoughts beliefs, feelings, desires
If you have a theory of mind. you understand that people act according to what they beelieve to the case

Question 15 of 20

15. Question

How does Noam Chomsky explain the rapid and complex acquistion of language in children?

Knowledge of language is modeled from caregivers
Knowledge of language is innate
Knowledge of language is reinforced in school
Knowledge of language is reinforced and practiced with peer groups

Question 16 of 20

16. Question

Which of the statement given below is an accurate assertion in relation to learning about gender?

Children do not segregate by gender in the pre-school years.
It is generally accepted that gender roles are acquired because of our biological pre-programming
By the early pre-school years, most or children know whether they are a boy or girl and can distinguish men from women.
Girls initially tend to be more physically active than boys.

Question 17 of 20

17. Question

At which age can children accurately predict the gender of a person steretypically based on the attributes associated with particular activities?

One year of age
Six years of age
Ten years of age
Two years of age

Question 18 of 20

18. Question

Mentalinguistic awareness refers to which ability in children?

The ability to think and talk about language and its properties
The ability to think and talk about gender and its properties
The ability to read mathematical operations
The ability to speak multiple languages

Question 19 of 20

19. Question

When someone’s biological sex does not match their gender identity, they may be experiencing which phenomenon?

Transexual identity
Communicative disorder
Sexual dysfunction
Gender identity disorder

Question 20 of 20

20. Question

Researchers have demonstrated that between the ages of 6 and 10, the meaning of “friendship” progrresses in the following way:

Mutual support to reciprocity to social ties
Mutual liking to trust reciprocity
Reciprocity to mutual liking to trust
Trust to sharing to mutual liking

MCQs of Psychology – Infancy And Childhood

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