Start Test: NCE Test by Anh Dao

Question: A tall skinny pitcher of water is emptied into a small sqautty pitcher. A child indicates that she feels the small has less water. The child has not yet mastered

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sympbolic schema

conservation

androgynous psychosocial issues

trust versus mistrust

Question: ______________ expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development

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Erick Erikson

The Russian psychologist Lev Vygotosky

Lawrence Kohlberg

John B. Watson

Question: The statement, "the ego is dependent on the id" would most likely reflect the work of

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Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

Jay Haley

Arnold Lazarus, William Perry, and Robert Kegan

Question: Jean Piaget's theory has four stages. The correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is

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formal operations, concrete operations, preoperations, sensorimotor

formal operations, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations

sensorimotor, peroperations, concrete operations, formal operations

concrete operations, sensorimotor, preoperations, formal operations

Question: A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as

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formal operations-12 years and older

concrete operations- ages 7 to 11

preoperations- ages 2 to 7

sensorimotor intelligence - birth to 2 years

Question: Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erickson's stages are

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Pyschometric

Pyschodiagnostic

Psychopharmacological

Pscyhosocial

Question: According to Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage, known as concrete operations operational thought. The notion suggests

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that heavier objects are more difficult for a child to lift

the child is ambidextrous

the child is more cognizant of mass than weight

one can undo an action, hence an object can return to its initial shape

Question: The only psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory which encompasses the entire life span was

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Erik Erikson

Milton H. Erikson

A. A. Brill

Jean Piaget

Question: In Freudian theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist. Ego psychologists

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emphasize id processes

refute the concept of the superego

believe in man's powers of reasoning to control behavior

are sometimes known as radical behaviorist

Question: In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refers to

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volume or mass

defenses of the ego

the sensorimotor intelligence stage

a specific psychosocial stage of life

Question: Some behavioral scientists have been critical of the Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as

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he utilized the t test too frequently

he failed to check for type 1 of alpha errors

he worked primarily with minority children

his findings were often derived from observing his own children