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This set of Developmental Psychology 1 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Developmental Psychology 1 Set 2

Q1 | 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 perceivethe world only from his own standpoint.
  • formal operation
  • sensory motor stage
  • concrete operational stage
  • preoperational stage
Q2 | Generalizations and framing of rules by operating in abstract terms become quitepossible at this stage.
  • formal operation stage
  • formal operation
  • sensory motor stage
  • preoperational stage
Q3 | Human languages have a ……………………. structure.
  • hierarchical
  • vertical
  • parallel
  • long
Q4 | The smallest speech units in a language that can be distinguished perceptually.
  • phonemes
  • morphemes
  • grammar
  • prefix
Q5 | …………………………are the smallest units of meaning in a language.
  • phonemes
  • morphemes
  • grammar
  • prefix
Q6 | …………………… is a system of rules that specify how words can be arranged intosentences.
  • syntax
  • semantics
  • morphemes
  • phonemes
Q7 | .…………………. is the knowledge, independent of semantics and syntax etc, ofwhat kind of response would be appropriate in a given social situation.
  • semantics
  • pragmatics
  • morphemes
  • syntax
Q8 | …………………….. is the stage at which the individually meaningless phonemesare assembled to produce meaningful portions of language, called morphemes.
  • semantics
  • morphemes
  • syntax
  • pragmatics
Q9 | Attachment theory is the joint work of ……………… and Mary Ainsworth.
  • b f skinner
  • j piaget
  • john bowlby
  • vygotsky
Q10 | …………….. is a psychological, evolutionary, and ethological theoryconcerning relationships between humans
  • attachment theory
  • emotional theory
  • learning theory
  • developmental theory
Q11 | Which mostly affects the development of emotional self-regulation?
  • temperament
  • learning
  • perception
  • motivation
Q12 | In child-to-adult relationships, the child's tie is called the "attachment" and thecaregiver's reciprocal equivalent is referred to as ……………….. .
  • attachment bond
  • care-giving bond
  • relationship bond
  • bonding
Q13 | Who is known as the principle attachment figure?
  • father
  • significant others
  • mothers
  • care givers
Q14 | ……………….. is the anticipation or fear of being cut off from the attachment figure.
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • alarm
  • distress
Q15 | In which stage attachment behaviours such as clinging and following decline and selfreliance increases.
  • early childhood
  • late childhood
  • middle childhood
  • early adulthood
Q16 | Types of Bowlby’s theory of attachment (Child and caregiver behaviour patterns before the age of 18 months)
  • secure, avoidant, ambivalent/resistant & organized
  • secure, avoidant, ambivalent/resistant & disorganized
  • safe, avoidant, ambivalent/resistant & organized
  • safe, avoidant, ambivalent/resistant & disorganized
Q17 | In which attachment pattern of Bowlby children show a pattern of alternateaggression and withdrawal?
  • secure
  • avoidant
  • ambivalent/resistant
  • disorganized
Q18 | Who extended the Attachment theory to adult romantic relationships?
  • cindy hazan and phillip shaver
  • j bowlby and mary ainsworth
  • piaget and vygotsky
  • none of them
Q19 | In Freud's view, development is a …………….. process.
  • continuous
  • discontinuous
  • automatic
  • loose
Q20 | In Freud’s oral developmental stage the pleasure is centered around the ……………..
  • mouth
  • genitals
  • faeces
  • opposite sex
Q21 | Freud's theory relied mainly on the use of methods such as
  • free association, empirical testing, dream analysis & introspection
  • free association, dream analysis, case study & empirical testing
  • free association, dream analysis, experiments & testing.
  • free association, dream analysis, case study & introspection
Q22 | Who proposed the psychosocial theory?
  • erik erickson
  • vygostky
  • piaget
  • freud
Q23 | Watson applied ………….. principles of classical conditioning to children'sbehaviour.
  • skinner’s
  • pavlov\s
  • bandura’s
  • erickson’s
Q24 | What is the name of the child whom the classical condioning was tested by J.Watson?
  • albert
  • sultan
  • bob
  • ted
Q25 | Who proposed the operant conditioning learning theory?
  • pavlov
  • skinner
  • bandura
  • j. watson