Study of development is useful for the:

Related Mcqs:

1. The clinical method is particularly useful to the study of such school problems as the following:

   A. The serve reading-disability case
   B. The serve stutter or stammerer
   C. The chronic delinquent
   D. All of the above

2. 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

3. When the development of the same subjects is studied over a period of time, the study is called a:

   A. cross-sectional study
   B. life history study
   C. longitudinal study
   D. sequential study

4. Development is formal study of changes:

   A. Physical
   B. Cognitive
   C. Social and emotional
   D. All of the above

5. Development is a formal study of those changes which take place due to:

   A. Experiences
   B. Incidents
   C. Rearing
   D. All of the above

6. In _________ method of study in psychology, passive study and analysis of human behaviour is usually done.

   A. Introspection Method
   B. Experimental Method
   C. Observational Method
   D. Genetic Method

7. A systematic study of facts according to a reliable and correct method of study is called a __________?

   A. Scientific Study
   B. Biological Study
   C. Methodology
   D. Social Technique

8. We wish to test the hypothesis that music improves learning. We compare test scores of students who study to music with those who study in silence, Which of the following is an extraneous variable in this experiments?

   A. the presence or absence of music
   B. the students test scores
   C. the amount of time allowed the studying
   D. silence

9. Which of the following is true of Milgram’s (1963) study of obedience? The study found that:

   A. Quite ordinary people taking part in a laboratory experiment were not prepared to administer electric shocks just because an experimenter told them to do so
   B. Participants believed that the shocks they administered would not harm anyone
   C. Apparently pathological behaviour may not be due to individual pathology but to particular social circumstances
   D. None of the above

10. Lauren and Curtis spend six hours per week studying for the botany course. Lauren is concerned that if she doesn’t study she will fail the course; Curtis is concerned that if he doesn’t study he won’t earn the highest grade in the class. In this example:

    A. Lauren is motivated by both a fear of failure and a need for achievement, while Curtis is merely motivated by a need for achievement
    B. Lauren is motivated by a fear of failure and Curtis is motivated by a need for achievement
    C. both students are motivated by a need for achievement
    D. both students are motivated by a fear of failure