This is a trivia quiz relevant to the field of developmental psychology. It is rather scientific. Difficulty Level: Medium. Answer each question to the best of your ability! Good Luck!
- Question of
According to Piaget’s theory of Cognitive Development, at what age do children develop the ability for deferred imitation?
- 8-12 months
- 12-18 months
- 18-24 months
- 24-36 months
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During Piaget’s Sensorimotor stage, what is the ability to flexibly altering existing schemas into new schemas called?
- Accommodation
- Assimilation
- Adaption
- Equilibrium
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According to Piaget’s theory of Cognitive Development, as part of a child’s development of object permanence, what does perseverance error refer to?
- The mistake of referring to caregivers as possessing the object which is lost
- The mistake of using only the imagination to track an object
- The mistake of believing only what is seen can exist
- The mistake of looking in the place the object was previously found
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According to Freud’s theory of Psychosexual Development, during which stage is children’s developmental focus on gender identity and morality?
- Anal (1-3 years)
- Phallic (3-6 years)
- Latency (6-12 years)
- Genital (12+ years)
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Which of the following is NOT regarded as an important area of personality development in the first 3 months of life? Developing a balance between optimism and pessimism
- Developing a balance between optimism and pessimism
- Developing gender identity
- Developing self-efficacy
- Avoiding learned helplessness
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According to Piaget’s theory of Cognitive Development, during which stage do children develop animistic conceptions, expressed in ways such as “Don’t hurt the grass. It will be sad?”
- Pre-Operational
- Sensorimotor
- Concrete Operational
- Formal Operational
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Play is for children what work is for adults.” Which of the following is NOT an important developmental outcome of the play?
- Cognitive mastery (e.g. concepts of reversibility & conservation)
- Emotional development & regulation (e.g. “cooling down” by venting socially unaccepted emotions)
- Overcoming negativism (e.g. reducing noncompliance to adult requests)
- Language development (e.g. giving labels)
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What is the difference between a child’s capacity to perform a task independently and the potential to perform it with assistance known as?
- Scaffolding discrepancy
- Heteronomity-autonomity difference
- Social learning dissonance
- Zone of proximal development
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What is the knowledge that one’s biological gender cannot be altered by superficial transformations, such as wearing a wig (achieved by around 5-7 years), known as?
- Gender schema theory
- Gender stability
- Gender constancy
- Gender consistency
- Question of
Which of the following is NOT regarded as a disadvantage of the case study approach to developmental psychology research?
- Fails to generate hypotheses for future research
- Risks error due to individuals’ recall inaccuracy
- Tends to be expensive and time-consuming
- Prone to confirmatory biases
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In naturalistic observation research, which of the following is NOT an effective way of ensuring objectivity of individuals’ behaviour?
- Train as observers people who are a normal part of the individual’s natural environment
- Use one-way glass observation rooms to hide observers from the participant
- Use video cameras to film participants without them knowing
- Have several observers confer on what they should be looking for before watching the same events
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What is the fact that findings from controlled experimental studies cannot always be applied outside the laboratory into everyday life referred to as?
- Limited transferability
- Limited reliability
- Limited generalizability
- Limited applicability
- Question of
Self-report questionnaires…
- Are easy to administer and are therefore make for an efficient research method
- Withstand the problems of miscommunication and participants’ inaccurate recall
- Tap into thoughts and feelings which could easily be observed using a naturalistic observation approach
- Allow researchers to overcome desirability bias
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Which of these factors would contribute towards the nurture side of the nature-nurture debate?
- Parenting style
- Education
- Nutrition
- All of these
