During the third through the eight week of pregnancy, the developing child can be accurately referred to as the ______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Najib recently lost his job and has a great debt accumulated from gambling. He also has been feeling extreme pressure about not being able to take care of his eight children. After having too much to drink, Najib ran over a child crossing the street. Immediately following this episode, Najib could not remember who he was. This example illustrates:

   A. dissociative amnesia
   B. dissociative fugue
   C. dissociative identity disorder
   D. multiple personality disorder

3. Smoking during pregnancy is associated with _____________?

   A. High intelligence in the fetus, since the fetus must be clever to keep the cigarette burning
   B. Low birth weight
   C. High mortality
   D. Both B and C

4. Which of the following is not associated with smoking during pregnancy?

   A. mental retardation
   B. lower birth weight
   C. miscarriage
   D. visual defects

5. Fetal alcohol syndrome is most serve if the mother drinks during which period of pregnancy?

   A. Just before conception
   B. Second trimester
   C. First two months
   D. First trimester

6. Which of the following areas of research in psychology is concerned with assessing individual differences, developing tests, and developing new statistical techniques?

   A. experimental psychology
   B. social psychology
   C. psychometrics
   D. physiological psychology

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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