A child proceeds from infancy to:

Related Mcqs:

1. A child is shown two identical balls of clay, sees one of them rolled into a rod shape, and is then asked which ball contains more clay. This child is being tested for an understanding of _____________?

   A. object permanence
   B. conservation of substance
   C. the reversibility of actions
   D. logical possibilities

2. The relationship between a child’s intellectual development and the age at which the child first walks is _____________?

   A. strong
   B. moderate
   C. nonexistent
   D. lower

3. 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

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

   A. generalization
   B. accommodation
   C. assimilation
   D. transition

5. 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

6. A child is largely nonverbal, is learning to coordinate purposeful movements with sense information, and is developing the concept of object permanence. The child is in Piaget’s_____stage.

   A. sensorimotor
   B. preoperational
   C. concrete operational
   D. formal operations

7. A child who has been frightened by a dog develops a fear response to all dogs. This is known as:

   A. Stimulus Discrimination
   B. Extinction
   C. Spontaneous recovery
   D. Stimulus Generalization

8. A child can learn only:

   A. What is taught to him
   B. What does he learn at home
   C. For what he wishes to learn
   D. What he find in his environment

9. A child has leaned to avoid a furry, black cat. However, she still plays with her grandmother’s short-haired tabby. Her response demonstrates?

   A. negative transfer
   B. extinction
   C. discrimination
   D. successive approximation

10. A child learns attitudes:

    A. Learns positive attitudes from his family
    B. Learns both positive and negative attitudes from his family
    C. Learns negative attitudes from his family
    D. None of the above