A. Children do not segregate by gender in the pre-school years.
B. It is generally accepted that gender roles are acquired because of our biological pre-programming
C. By the early pre-school years, most or children know whether they are a boy or girl and can distinguish men from women.
D. Girls initially tend to be more physically active than boys.
Related Mcqs:
- Which one of the statements below is correct in relation to children’s perceptual and motor development in the pre-school years?
A. By the age of 2, many children have begun to walk unaided manipulate objects independently
B. A 3-years-old is likely to be quite mobile but may find it difficult to run
C. A typical 3-years old has the same agility as a typical 5-years old
D. Skills such as throwing and catching jumping and hopping begin to emerge at around t to 8 years - 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 - 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 - When someone’s biological sex does not match their gender identity, they may be experiencing which phenomenon?
A. Transexual identity
B. Communicative disorder
C. Sexual dysfunction
D. Gender identity disorder - 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 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. - 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 - An infant acts relatively indifferent to her mother’s presence, does not seem greatly disturbed by her departure, and does not go to her when she returns. This is an example of which type of infant attachment style according to Marry Ainsworth and colleagues?
A. Secure attachment
B. Increase attachment /resistant
C. Insecure attachment/avoidant
D. Preoperational attachment - According to Piaget, the preoperational stage refers to the development of which cognitive abilities in children?
A. Child begins to speak for the first time
B. Child begins to recognize faces of primary caregivers
C. Child begins to solve problems logically
D. Child begins to represent the world symbolically but remains intutive and egocentric - How does Noam Chomsky explain the rapid and complex acquistion of language in children?
A. Knowledge of language is modeled from caregivers
B. Knowledge of language is innate
C. Knowledge of language is reinforced in school
D. Knowledge of language is reinforced and practiced with peer groups
