A. Infants are independent upon others for the provision of basic needs.
B. Infants are unable to process perceptual information.
C. Babies have an array of perceptual and physical capacities which enable them to engage with the world in more complex ways than once believed.
D. Some of the baby’s capacities seem to be presant at birth. some develop rapidly during the first year or so, and some very according to the opportunities for exercising them.
Related Mcqs:
- Which reflex in infants ensures that normal infants will respond to contact with the mothers’ breast by seeking out the nipple and feeding?
A. Rooting reflex
B. Moro reflex
C. Sucking reflex
D. A and C - Which of the following assertions about object permanance is NOT actually the case?
A. In the first few months of life, the stability of objects in their lives is generally beyond infants’ control.
B. Object permanence is the nation that an object exists only while we can see it.
C. Piaget maintained that very young infants have no conception of the durability objects.
D. Developments during the sensorimotor stage of development include learning to use objects as tools. - Researchers have demonstrated that between the ages of 6 and 10, the meaning of “friendship” progresses in the following way:
A. Mutual support to reciprocity to social ties
B. Mutual liking to trust reciprocity
C. Reciprocity to mutual liking to trust
D. Trust to sharing to mutual liking - Which of the following statements about Jean Piaget is NOT true?
A. Piaget developed a model of cognitive development which holds that children’s thinking progresses through a series of orderly stages.
B. According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage extends from approximately 2 to 7 years of age.
C. Piaget regarded the child in the sensorimotor stage as acting to learn about itself and its relations to the environment.
D. Piaget believed that children learn by doing. - Which of the following statements is true in language development?
A. In their first few months of life, infants can discriminate among sounds in foreign languages that are not used in their own community
B. In their first few months of life, infants can only discriminate among sounds in the language of their own community
C. Towards the end of our teens, we begin to lose our sensitivity to phonetic contrasts in languages other that one(s) we learned as children
D. Language acquistion is complete by about age 4 - Which of the following assertions about social development is ?
A. The development of the two aspects of social selectivity-attachment and wariness of strangers-are cosely related in onset and development significance
B. According to Powlby through the course of the first attachment the infant begins to formulate an internal working model of what a relationship involves.
C. Through forming attachment the infant minimizes opportunities for nurturing and protection
D. Many social developmentalists believe that the formation of attachments is a vital aspect of early relations. - Which of the following statements about theory of mind is ?
A. Theory of mind refers to the understanding that people have mental states that influence our behaviour
B. Findings from theory of mind studies indicate that pre-schoolers have few problems understanding is an outcome of their mental states.
C. Mental states include thoughts beliefs, feelings, desires
D. If you have a theory of mind. you understand that people act according to what they beelieve to the case - At which age can children accurately predict the gender of a person steretypically based on the attributes associated with particular activities?
A. One year of age
B. Six years of age
C. Ten years of age
D. Two years of age - According to Jean Piaget, what is the first stage of cognitive development, occurring from birth to two years of age?
A. Sensorimotor stage
B. Infant cognition stage
C. Object permanance
D. Sensory information stage - Which if any, of these statements about Piaget’s conservation test is accurate?
A. The conservation test can only be conducted with children aged under 5 years.
B. In the water conservation task, the level of liquid is maintained at exactly the same height when it is transferred to a differently shaped beaker
C. Th pre-operational child’s judgement is swayed by one dimension, such as the fact that the contents of one beaker look taller than the other
D. None of the above
