A. overregularization
B. two-word speech
C. one-word speech
D. telegraphic speech
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Mary says she must like Theater class because it’s not required and she’s getting a pretty good grade in it. Daryl Bem would see this as evidence of his______theory.
A. Self- perception
B. Cognitive dissonance
C. Compliance
D. Balance - A student who is quite honest turns in the paper of another student as his own. When accused of dishonesty, he says, “nowadays everybody cheats in school, but, I’m always honest.” The student is using which type of defense mechanism?
A. compensation
B. projection
C. identification
D. repression - Five-year-old David watches as you pour water from a short, wide glass into a tall, narrow one. He says there is now more water than before. This response demonstrates that:
A. David understands the concept of conservation
B. David does not understand the concept of conversion
C. David cognitive development is “behind” for his age
D. both b and c are the case - Dr. Jamil wants to study the effects of poverty on one’s self concept. To do this he interviews a group of subjects from the inner city once every five years for a period of 30 years. This experiment is an example of what type-of study?
A. Correlational study
B. cross sectional study
C. Gesell’s dome
D. longitudinal study - Dr. Jamshed wants to see if person’s IQ changes as they get older. To do this he takes three groups of subjects. Group i is made up of 10 years old, and Group III of 25 years old. Dr. Jamshed tests all three groups of their IQ level. The design of this experiment is called:
A. longitudinal study
B. more information is needed to determine the design of the experiment
C. Gesell’s dome
D. cross sectional study - Javaid is a graduate student who is studying the way in which selective attention develops during the preadolescent years. He selected a group of 10-years-olds, and he assesses their selective attention every six months over a two-year period. In this example, Javaid is using:
A. a longitudinal research design
B. a sequential design
C. a cross-sectional design
D. a multi-factorial research design
