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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.
Q2 | Generalizations and framing of rules by operating in abstract terms become quitepossible at this stage.
Q3 | Human languages have a ……………………. structure.
Q4 | The smallest speech units in a language that can be distinguished perceptually.
Q5 | …………………………are the smallest units of meaning in a language.
Q6 | …………………… is a system of rules that specify how words can be arranged intosentences.
Q7 | .…………………. is the knowledge, independent of semantics and syntax etc, ofwhat kind of response would be appropriate in a given social situation.
Q8 | …………………….. is the stage at which the individually meaningless phonemesare assembled to produce meaningful portions of language, called morphemes.
Q9 | Attachment theory is the joint work of ……………… and Mary Ainsworth.
Q10 | …………….. is a psychological, evolutionary, and ethological theoryconcerning relationships between humans
Q11 | Which mostly affects the development of emotional self-regulation?
Q12 | In child-to-adult relationships, the child's tie is called the "attachment" and thecaregiver's reciprocal equivalent is referred to as ……………….. .
Q13 | Who is known as the principle attachment figure?
Q14 | ……………….. is the anticipation or fear of being cut off from the attachment figure.
Q15 | In which stage attachment behaviours such as clinging and following decline and selfreliance increases.
Q16 | Types of Bowlby’s theory of attachment (Child and caregiver behaviour patterns before the age of 18 months)
Q17 | In which attachment pattern of Bowlby children show a pattern of alternateaggression and withdrawal?
Q18 | Who extended the Attachment theory to adult romantic relationships?
Q19 | In Freud's view, development is a …………….. process.
Q20 | In Freud’s oral developmental stage the pleasure is centered around the ……………..
Q21 | Freud's theory relied mainly on the use of methods such as
Q22 | Who proposed the psychosocial theory?
Q23 | Watson applied ………….. principles of classical conditioning to children'sbehaviour.
Q24 | What is the name of the child whom the classical condioning was tested by J.Watson?
Q25 | Who proposed the operant conditioning learning theory?