A child whose father has a beard and who uses the word daddy to refer to all men with beards is __________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. When an infant learns to call his father “daddy” and then calls all men “daddy”, this is an example of ____________________?

   A. overgeneralization
   B. over-discrimination
   C. under-generalization
   D. telegraphic speech

2. Watson and Rayner (1`920) conditioned “Little Albert’ to fear white rats by banging a hammer on a steel bar as the child played with a white rat. Later, it was discovered that Albert feared not only white rats but white stuffed toys and Santa’s beard as well. Albert’s fear of these other objects can be attributed to:

   A. the law effect
   B. stimulus generalization
   C. stimulus discrimination
   D. an overactive imagination

3. When we use the word “tree” to refer to a category of plants, we are using this word as a/an __________________?

   A. prototype
   B. heuristic
   C. concept
   D. algorithm

4. A father suggests that his son’s low marks in school are due to the child’s laziness. The father has made a (an)______attribution.

   A. external
   B. internal
   C. situational
   D. high consensus

5. A child has learned to get his or her way with a younger sibling by using physical intimidation. If her or she uses the same tactics on peers, this demonstrates:

   A. social learning
   B. classical conditioning
   C. assimilation
   D. accommodation

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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