A child in Piaget’s preoperational stage is given a toy and attempts to eat it. This child is demonstrating ____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. A child is playing with a toy. When you hide the toy, she makes no effort to look for it. According to Jean Piaget, the child is in which stage of cognition?

   A. Concrete Operational
   B. Formal operational
   C. Sensorimotor
   D. Preoperational

2. In a weight-reduction experiment, an overweight individual was given what the researcher called a new type of diet pill that would help curb the desire to eat in fact. the pill really contained powdered milk, but ever since the individual started taking the diet pill, he has reported that his desire to eat has decreased. This illustrates the:

   A. curvilinear relationship
   B. effect of extraneous variables
   C. natural experiment
   D. placebo effect

3. This is not the characteristic of preoperational stage of development __________________?

   A. egocentric thought
   B. understanding of conservation
   C. static thinking
   D. problem solving behavior

4. A psychologist expects that rats raised in toy-filled cages will become better learner. This expectation of him is ___________?

   A. research hypothesis
   B. observer expectancy effect
   C. independent variable
   D. inferential statistics

5. Two-year-old Damien frequently refuses to obey his parents because he derives immense pleasure from demonstrating his independence from their control Freud would have suggested that Damien is going through the______stage of development.

   A. latency
   B. genital
   C. anal
   D. phallic

6. If Aaliya who is 2 1/2 years old says, “cookie me now”, she is demonstrating:

   A. overregularization
   B. two-word speech
   C. one-word speech
   D. telegraphic speech

7. Long-term potentiation and long-term depression are processes demonstrating that:

   A. Experience can modify a neuron’s responses
   B. Experience can modify a person’s potential
   C. Experience can modify a person’s mental health
   D. Experience cannot modify a neuron’s responses

8. Experiments with rats, monkeys and humans using sham feeding have advanced our knowledge about food intake by demonstrating that:

   A. Satiety and reward signals are necessary to control eating
   B. Taste and smell stop food-seeking
   C. Gastric distension is caused by sham feeding
   D. Satiety motivates food-seeking behavior

9. During a child’s development, if the amount of frustration and anxiety becomes too great concerning movement to the next stage, development may come to a halt. The individual is said to become ____________?

   A. dependent
   B. passive
   C. fixated
   D. regressive

10. An experimenter who has been carefully trained in the techniques of self-observation uses himself as his object. He attempts to analyze his own immediate experience into its elements. This study would most likely occur in the laboratory of ____________?

    A. John Watson
    B. Max Wertheimer
    C. Hermann von Helmholtz
    D. Edward Titchener