Psychology MCQ questions with answers
Discover 50 essential MCQs on child development, psychology, and socialization with detailed answers and explanations. Ideal for students and educators preparing for exams or expanding their knowledge of these topics."
1) What the aspect of child development has evolved, according
to John Bowlby?
a) the
emotional bond between infant and caregiver
b) the
ability to move independently
c) separation
from caregivers
d) the desire to be a mother
Ans: a
2) For
Skinner, development is the result of:
a) a
continuous shaping process
b) maturation
c) recapitulation
d) sudden
qualitative reorganization of behavior
· Ans: a
3) What
kind of ‘conditioning’ did Watson experiment with?
a) classical
conditioning
b) operant
conditioning
c) air
conditioning
d) social conditioning
· Ans: a
4) Operant
conditioning aims to condition what kind of behavior?
a) reflexes
b) emitted
responses
c) only
thoughts and feelings
d) respondents
· Ans: b
5) In
general terms, what does a cognitive developmental psychologist try to
reconstruct?
a) a child’s
underlying competence
b) the child’s
performance
c) what the child
actually does
d) what the child
says about what they do
· Ans: a
6) Which
stage is profoundly different from the others in the character of its schemas?
a) sensory-motor
stage
b) preoperational
stage
c) concrete
operational stage
d) formal
operational stage
· Ans: a
7) What
is the central outcome of sensory-motor intelligence?
a) the
construction of knowledge of reality
b) the
construction of material artifacts
c) the
construction of schemas
d) the
construction of equilibration
· Ans: a
8) At
which age would a child be categorized as preoperational according to Piaget?
a) 2
– 7 years
b) 5
– 7 years
c) 7
– 11 years
d) None
of these
· Ans:
a
9) According
to Adler, which of the following is not one of the primary goals of children's
misbehavior?
a) Revenge
b) Attention
c) Affection
d) Power
· Ans:
c
10) A
self-esteem curriculum, honor societies, free breakfasts and lunches, and
cooperative learning groups are applications of:
a) Roger’s
humanistic classroom
b) Freud's
theory of psychosocial development
c) Erikson's
psychosocial grouping
d) Maslow's
hierarchy of needs
· Ans:
d
11) ________
are the basic biological units that transmit characteristics from one
generation to the next:
a) Genes
b) Neurons
c) Glia
d) Instincts
· Ans:
a
12) Primary
school children will learn most effectively in an atmosphere:
a) where
their emotional needs are met and they feel that they are valued
b) where
the teacher is authoritative and clearly dictates what should be done
c) where
the focus and stress are only on mastering primarily cognitive skills of
reading, writing and mathematics
d) where
the teacher leads all the learning and expects students to play a passive role
· Ans:
a
13) Which of the
following is a sensitive period pertaining to language development?
a) Prenatal
period
b) Middle
childhood period
c) Adulthood
d) Early
childhood period
· Ans:
d
14) Which
one of the following is best suited for emotional development of children?
a) Democratic
classroom environment
b) No
involvement of the teachers as it is the task of the parents
c) Controlled
classroom environment
d) Authoritarian
classroom environment
· Ans:
a
15) Giving punishment, verbal or
non-verbal, to the children results in:
a) motivating
them to work
b) protecting the
child's image
c) improving
their scores
d) damaging their
self-concept
· Ans:
d
16) Which one out of the following
provides information about the roles and behaviors which are acceptable in a
group, during early childhood period?
a) Siblings and
Teachers
b) Teachers and
Peers
c) Peers and
Parents
d) Parents and
Siblings
· Ans:
d
17) Which of the following age
groups falls under later childhood category?
a) 11 to 18 years
b) 18 to 24 years
c) Birth to 6
years
d) 6 to 11 years
· Ans:
d
18) "Anyone can become
angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right
degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that
is not easy." This is related to:
a) Emotional
development
b) Social
development
c) Cognitive
development
d) Physical
development
· Ans:
a
19) Which of the following stages
are involved when infants "THINK" with their eyes, ears and hands?
a) Concrete
operational stage
b) Pre-operational
stage
c) Sensorimotor
stage
d) Formal
operational stage
· Ans:
c
20) A child starts to cry when his
grandmother takes him from his mother's lap. The child cries due to:
a) emotional
anxiety
b) stranger
anxiety
c) separation
anxiety
d) social
anxiety
· Ans:
a
21) “Self – based evaluation on
reflection or social comparison” is:
a) Self – help
b) Self –
confidence
c) Self – esteem
d) Self –
awareness
· Ans:
c
22) Role recording is the refined
version of:
a) Summary
recording
b) Narrative
recording
c) Process
recording
d) Abstract
· Ans:
c
23) Who has given the ‘functional
theory’ of social stratification?
a) T. B.
Bottomore
b) K. Davis
c) Karl Marx
d) W.E. Moore
· Ans:
d
24) According to Freudian
understanding, thoughts or motives that a person is currently aware of or is
remembering is called as:
a) Conscious
b) Memory
c) Sub –
conscious
d) Fixation
· Ans:
a
25) Change or stability in mental
activities such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning
and creativity is:
a) Physical
development
b) Psychological
development
c) Cognitive
development
d) Social
construction
· Ans:
c
26) “Degree of consciousness about
thinking, feelings and actions” is:
a) Self –
awareness
b) Self – esteem
c) Self – respect
d) Self –
confidence
· Ans:
a
27) ‘Evaluation of self – based on
reflection or social comparison’ is known as:
a) Self –
awareness
b) Self – esteem
c) Self –
security
d) Self –
confidence
· Ans:
b
28) __________ propounds that
childhood experiences influence the adult behavior
a) Person
Centered theory
b) Psychoanalytical
theory
c) Behavior
modification theory
d) Existential
theory
· Ans:
b
29) Maslow in his triangle of
human needs showed that:
a) Challenging
new tasks is the basic human need
b) Money always
motivates workers
c) Safety and
security is a low order human need
d) Workers will
not give their best unless they have good social events provided
· Ans:
c
30) Psychoanalytic theory about
human personality was proposed by:
a) Carl Jung
b) Skinner
c) Sigmund Freud
d) Alfred Adler
· Ans:
c
31) Which one refers to the actual
behavior that the individual engages in while enacting the role?
a) Role taking
b) Role playing
c) Playing at a
role
d) Role
expectation
· Ans:
b
32) A woman executive presides
over a management board meeting, picks up her daughter from her school, and
goes to play a game of bridge in the ladies club. She is manifesting:
a) Her role set
b) Her status set
c) Her style of
life
d) Her elite
status
· Ans:
b
33) Ego experiences role conflict
at two levels:
a) Within his own
body of roles and between his own roles and those of other actors
b) Within his own
group and with outside group
c) Within himself
and with outsiders
d) Within the
roles of his family and with roles outside his family
· Ans:
a
34) Behavioral changes which occur
on the basis of physiological developments rather than learning and which
appear in virtually all members of species are the result of:
a) Socialization
b) Rationalization
c) Maturation
d) Fermentation
· Ans:
d
35) To trace the course of
mental growth in an individual or the race is the problem of:
a) Analytical
psychology
b) Synthetic
psychology
c) Genetic
psychology
d) Physiological
psychology
· Ans:
a
36) There is an evidence of a
hereditary component in development of the mental illness known as:
a) Paranoia
b) Psychoneurotic
disorders
c) Schizophrenia
d) Paralysis
· Ans:
a
37) At what age a child takes his
first step in walking?
a) 5 to 6 years
b) 10 to 12 years
c) 4 to 5 years
d) None of these
· Ans:
d
38) Maturation changes occur in a
fairly predictable sequence and continue until:
a) Adolescence
b) Adulthood
c) Old age
d) None of these
· Ans:
b
39) The concept of “a personality
nucleus” was given by:
a) Allport
b) Stendler
c) Shirley
d) Skinner
· Ans:
c
40) A child is born with some:
a) Qualities
b) Ego
c) Innate drives
d) All of these
· Ans:
c
41) The child becomes socialized:
a) Fast
b) Gradually
c) Slowly
d) After ego
· Ans:
b
42) What is the determinant of the
scope of socialization of a child?
a) Environment
b) Excitement
c) Development of
physique
d) Language
development
· Ans:
a
43) Individual differences are
found in:
a) Environmental
situations
b) Cognitive
situations
c) Perceptual
situations
d) Emotional
situations
· Ans:
c
44) What is the result of
emotional immaturity in the child?
a) Struggle
b) Pain
c) Frustration
d) Anger
· Ans:
c
45) What is the impact of other
members of the family besides the parents, on the socialization of the child?
a) External
b) Intimate
c) Good
d) None of these
· Ans:
b
46) How do brothers and sisters
affect the socialization of the child?
a) Continuously
b) Indirectly
c) Greatly
d) Commonly
· Ans:
c
47) What does the youngest child
receive all from the parents?
a) Drives
b) Attention
c) All
requirements
d) Affection
· Ans:
b
48) Applied aspects of social
psychology include the development and perfection of techniques for measuring:
a) Attitude
b) Opinion
c) Socialization
d) Both a and b
· Ans:
d
49) The educational psychologist
advises a school board on:
a) Old curriculum
b) Circulation of
stimulus
c) Knack
d) New curriculum
· Ans:
d
50) In the school, the child
faces:
a) Struggle
b) New society
c) Group
d) Resistance
· Ans:
b
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