A. formal-operational
B. preoperational
C. telegraphic speech
D. sensorimotor
Psychology Mcqs
According to Erikson, a child four to six years of age is in which stage of development?
A. latency stage
B. muscular-anal stage
C. locomotor-genital stage
D. oral-sensory stage
When a child understands that reversible changes in the appearance of an object do not change fundamental properties such as number, width and volume, the child has achieved _______________?
A. conservation
B. egocentrism
C. hypothetic-deductive reasoning
D. an understanding of cause-and-effect relations
Diana Baumrind found that which parenting style produces the most well-adjusted children?
A. Authoritative
B. Authoritarian
C. Permissive
D. Attached
The type of study construction in which different subjects at different developmental levels are compared is a _____________?
A. longitudinal study
B. cross-sectional study
C. field study
D. group construction
Speech like but meaningless sounds appear between 3 months to one year is termed as _______________?
A. syntax
B. babble
C. conserver
D. none of these
According to Noam Chomsky’s theory of transformational grammar, a ‘Kernel’ is ______________________?
A. the surface structure of a sentence
B. the smallest unit of meaning in a language
C. the deep structure of a sentence
D. the basic declarative thought of the sentence
In language, grammar refers to _________________?
A. the morphemes used
B. the phonemes used
C. both morphemes and phonemes
D. the rules used to connect phrases
Vygotsky is best known for his concept of ________________?
A. transformational grammar
B. zone of proximal development
C. psychosocial crises
D. strange situation
What refers to biological difference between males and females present at birth?
A. gender identity
B. gender role
C. sex
D. genotype