Quiz on Child psychology, child development and parenting:
Ques. Emotional intelligence involves __
(a) Mood management
(b) Managing relationships
(c) Emotional self-awareness
(d) All of the above
Ques. If everyone leaves five minutes before the class is over to avoid a traffic jam, the resulting traffic jam would be an example of
(a) social impregnation.
(b) a social trap.
(c) groupthink.
(d) self-handicapping.
Ques. The period of development during which school readiness skills are developed and most free time is spent playing with friends is called:
(a) infancy
(b) early childhood
(c) middle childhood
(d) late childhood
Ques. At what age do children reach an understanding of pride?
(a) 3-4
(b) 5-6
(c) 7-9
(d) 10-12
Ques. Which one is a basic institution for socialization of children:
(a) School
(b) Religion
(c) Family
(d) Community
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Ques. Sam Wilson is a highly athletic boy and can play games that involve bodily movement very well. However, he faces so much of difficulty in drawing and writing that he takes a long time even to write one alphabet clearly. This is indicative of his __
(a) Good fine motor skills
(b) Poor fine motor skills
(c) Poor gross motors skills
(d) Good gross motor skills
Ques. Sharing your own private thoughts and feelings is called
(a) self-talk.
(b) autonomy.
(c) self-disclosure.
(d) introspection.
Ques. According to Piaget, children can reason about hypothetical entities in the ___ stage.
(a) preoperational
(b) sensory-motor
(c) formal operational
(d) concrete operational
Ques. Like many others her age, Sara Parker does not know how to use a computer, but her six-year-old grandson has no problem navigating the Internet and using a word processing program. This is an example of a:
(a) normative age-graded influence
(b) normative history-graded influence
(c) nonnormative life event
(d) nonnormative socioemotional event
Ques. At what age do children begin to differentiate between others’ emotional distress and their own?
(a) 3-12 months
(b) 6-14 months
(c) 9-18 months
(d) 2 years
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Ques. Being able to play guitar well is an example of possessing good
(a) Fine motor skills
(b) Gross motor skills
(c) Reflexes
(d) Locomotor skills
Ques. When Ben was thirteen when his father was killed in a car accident. This is an example of a:
(a) normative age-graded influence
(b) normative history-graded influence
(c) nonnormative life event
(d) nonnormative socioemotional event
Ques. The psychosocial task during one’s high school years is to achieve a sense of?
(a) Industry
(b) Delinquency
(c) Autonomy
(d) Identity
Ques.  A mother and her infant son are being tested by Aisworth’s Strange Situation procedure. After the mother has left and comes back onto the room the child acts like he is mad at the mother. This child is said to be?
(a) secure
(b) anxious
(c) highly neurotic
(d) avoidant
Ques. The traditional approach to development emphasizes:
(a) little change from birth through old age
(b) extensive change from birth to adolescence, adulthood, and old age
(c) extensive change from birth to adulthood, then little change for the rest of the life span
(d) extensive change from birth to adolescence, little or no change in adulthood, then decline in late old age
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Ques. Dechen has an investigative and a curious mindset. She likes evaluating and contrasting the different things she has learnt in the class. This is indicative of her __
(a) Creative intelligence
(b) Analytical intelligence
(c) Practical intelligence
(d) All of the above
Ques. The psychosocial task during one’s high school years is to achieve a sense of?
(a) Industry
(b) Delinquency
(c) Autonomy
(d) Identity
Ques. Which period of development is characterized by establishing independence, developing an identity, and thinking more abstractly?
(a) middle childhood
(b) late childhood
(c) adolescence
(d) early adulthood
Ques. When we perform well, we typically attribute our success to _____.
(a) internal characteristics
(b) our group of students
(c) external circumstances
(d) our personality type
