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
Infancy and Childhood Psychology MCQs
Mentalinguistic awareness refers to which ability in children?
A. The ability to think and talk about language and its properties
B. The ability to think and talk about gender and its properties
C. The ability to read mathematical operations
D. The ability to speak multiple languages
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
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 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
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
Language in the form of phonemes of words is typically apparent in children of which age?
A. Six months
B. One year
C. Three months
D. Two years
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.
