Q. Piaget reasoned that before the individual can organize and interpret experience, they must first:
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Create schemas
Developmental Psychology 2 MCQs and Notes
Q. Psychoanalytic theories:
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Regard actions as strongly influenced by unconscious forces
Q. The information-processing approach:
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Analyses the different functional processes involved in cognitive development
Q. The premise of the ------- theory is that elders adapt to changes by using strategies to maintain continuity in their lives
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
Continuity theory
Q. ……… theory of aging states that Disengagement occurs when people withdraw from roles or activities and reduce their activity levels or involvement
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Disengagement theory
Q. ----------is a female sex hormone
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
Estrogen
Q. Jerry, age 67, and Al, age 65, are acquaintances. Jerry feels his life is meaningful and enjoys his existence, but he has noticed that Al has lately withdrawn and sees his life as a "bunch of unmet goals." These individuals illustrate which of Erikson's stages
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
integrity vs. despair
Q. According to Piaget, children would proceed through which sequence of stages in their cognitive development?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
Q. A child who failed to learn division and multiplication in grade school did not successfully complete which of Erikson's stages of personality development?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
industry vs. inferiority
Q. During the Sensorimotor Period, the most important source of information is .
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
the environment