Psychology MCQs with Answers – Practice Online – Page 21

Question 401 Psychology

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of the preoperational stage of development?

Correct answer D. Understanding of conservation

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Question 402 Psychology

What are psychologists who specialise in the study of language called?

Correct answer A. Psycholinguists

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Question 403 Psychology

What material are chromosomes made of?

Correct answer D. Deoxyribonucleic acid

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Question 404 Psychology

In child development, what does the phrase ‘general to specific’ refer to?

Correct answer D. Motor movements

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Question 405 Psychology

What does morphology refer to in language?

Correct answer C. The relationship between sounds and their meanings

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Question 406 Psychology

Who proposed the Language Acquisition Device?

Correct answer D. Chomsky

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Question 407 Psychology

In developmental terms, what does PKU refer to?

Correct answer D. A hereditary enzyme deficiency

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Question 408 Psychology

According to Piaget, what is the major achievement of the sensorimotor stage?

Correct answer A. Object permanence

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Question 409 Psychology

In genetics, what does the term ‘germ cell’ refer to?

Correct answer B. Ova and sperm cells

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Question 410 Psychology

Which brain wave is not evident in the newborn?

Correct answer D. Alpha

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Question 411 Psychology

Apraxia is marked by an inability to do what?

Correct answer D. Both A and B

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Question 412 Psychology

Growth of facial hair in an adolescent boy is an example of which kind of characteristic?

Correct answer B. Secondary sex characteristic

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Question 413 Psychology

According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, what characterises middle childhood?

Correct answer B. Concrete operations

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Question 414 Psychology

If a trait needs only one copy of a gene to be expressed, what kind of trait is it?

Correct answer A. Dominant

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Question 415 Psychology

According to Erikson, isolation is to intimacy as role confusion is to what?

Correct answer A. Identity

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Question 416 Psychology

Into what structures is the DNA carrying a person’s genetic information organised?

Correct answer A. Chromosomes

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Question 417 Psychology

According to Erik Erikson, which two basic issues dominate adulthood?

Correct answer D. Intimacy and generativity

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Question 418 Psychology

What causes Down’s syndrome?

Correct answer B. An extra autosome or part of one

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Question 419 Psychology

Piaget is best known for his work on which type of development?

Correct answer C. Cognitive

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Question 420 Psychology

In psychology, the nature-nurture debate concerns the relative influence of which two factors?

Correct answer A. Genes and environment

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