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1.Easy

A child who called every four-legged animal "dog" learns that cats are different and forms a new category. In Piaget's terms, this is:

  1. AAssimilation
  2. BAccommodation
  3. CConservation
  4. DEgocentrism
2.Easy

Harlow's monkey experiments showed that infant monkeys preferred:

  1. AA soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food
  2. BOther infant monkeys only
  3. CBeing alone to having any mother
  4. DA wire mother with food over a cloth mother without any food
3.Easy

According to Erikson, the main conflict of infancy is:

  1. AIndustry versus inferiority
  2. BAutonomy versus shame and doubt
  3. CTrust versus mistrust
  4. DInitiative versus guilt
4.Medium

Kagan described some toddlers who are consistently shy, cautious and quiet with unfamiliar people and situations. This temperament is called:

  1. ADisorganised attachment
  2. BLearned helplessness
  3. CBehavioural inhibition
  4. DIdentity diffusion
5.Medium

Habituation in infant research is used to show that babies:

  1. ABecome drowsy and sleep more when the same stimulus is presented over and over again
  2. BPrefer their own reflection
  3. CAre born with full adult vision
  4. DCan tell two stimuli apart because interest returns when the stimulus changes
6.Medium

Which concept refers to a period when a child is especially sensitive to certain experiences?

  1. AAccommodation
  2. BHabituation
  3. CObject permanence
  4. DCritical (sensitive) period
7.Hard

In Hughes' "policeman doll" study, most children aged 3½–5 could hide a boy doll where two policemen could not see him. How does this relate to Piaget's three mountains task?

  1. AIt confirms that young children are fully egocentric
  2. BIt shows that children cannot take any other person's viewpoint before about age 7
  3. CIt suggests young children are less egocentric when the task makes sense to them
  4. DIt shows that conservation develops before age 3
8.Hard

In Vygotsky's theory, private speech in young children is seen as:

  1. ASpeech mainly intended to communicate information to other people nearby
  2. BA sign of egocentrism with no function
  3. CA symptom of a language delay
  4. DA tool for guiding their own thinking that later becomes inner speech

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Accommodation
  2. 2. A · A soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food
  3. 3. C · Trust versus mistrust
  4. 4. C · Behavioural inhibition
  5. 5. D · Can tell two stimuli apart because interest returns when the stimulus changes
  6. 6. D · Critical (sensitive) period
  7. 7. C · It suggests young children are less egocentric when the task makes sense to them
  8. 8. D · A tool for guiding their own thinking that later becomes inner speech

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