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Subject Name : Developmental Psychology(SPPY104) - Assessment - 1

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1. Causality is tested using ___________

Survey research

Correlational Research

Descriptive Research

Experimental Research

2. According to Baltes, which of the following is not a goal of human

development?

Culture

Maintenance

Regulation of loss

Growth

3. According to Freud's Psychosexual development theory, which stage

follows Latency?

Genital Stage

Phallic Stage

Oral Stage

Anal Stage

4. The theory that behaviors are learned by observing and imitating models is

Social Learning Theory

Social Perspective Theory

Learning Theory

Motivational Theory

5. What are the cells that provide nutrition and support to the embryo

Mesoblast

Myoblast

Trophoblast

Thromboblast
6. A neonatal startle response that occurs in reaction to a sudden, intense
noise or movement is

Rooting Reflex

Sucking Reflex

Moro Reflex

Grasping Reflex

7. What form of speech includes crying cooing babbling and accidental and
deliberate imitation of sounds without understanding their meaning?

Pre speech

Linguistic Speech

Prelinguistic Speech

Language

8. What are the physical skills that involve large muscles

Gross motor skills

Fine motor skills

Movement

Micro movements

9. The practical knowledge needed to use language for communicative

purposes is

Grammar

Fast mapping

Syntax

Pragmatics

10. Understanding of the relationship between two objects by knowing the

relationship of each to a third object is called

Transitive Inference

Class Inclusion

Seriation

horizontal decalage
11. Piaget’s term for inconsistency in the development of different types of
conservation is

Transitive Inference

Class Inclusion

Seriation

horizontal decalage

12. Fluency or use of two languages is called

Bilingualism

Self-concept

Moral Development

Social Comparison

13. The period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs mainly in
early adolescence is

Puberty

Menarche

Adolescence

Adrenarche

14. Transition from adolescence to adulthood has been referred to as

Adolescence

Emerging adulthood

adrenarche

adulthood

15. The legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a

personal relationship is

Monogamy

Cohabitation

Marriage

Polygyny

16. The midlife transition in which fertility declines is

 Climacteric

Menopause

Perimenopause

adrenarche

17. Deterioration in cognitive and behavioral functioning due to psychological

causes is

Alzheimer’s Disease

Parkinson’s Disease

Dementia

Amyloid Plaque

18. The short-term storage of information being actively processed is

Sensory Memory

Working Memory

Episodic Memory

Semantic Memory

19. Pattern of retirement activity allocated among family, work and leisure

Family-focused lifestyle

Balanced Investment

Serious Leisure

Aging

20. Emotional response experienced in the early phases of bereavement.

Shock

Grief

Grief Work

Bereavement
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Subject Name : Developmental Psychology(SPPY104) - Assessment - 2
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1. Longterm changes in the genetic and cultural makeup of a population are

called as ___________

Non-normative life events

Normative history-graded influences

Normative age-graded influences

None of the above

2. View of development that holds that changes in behavior result from

experience or adaptation to the environment

Cognitive Perspective

Motivation

Personality

Learning Perspective

3. What is the embryo's inner layer of cells which will develop into the
digestive and respiratory systems

Endoderm

Mesoderm

Ectoderm

mactoderm

4. Automatic involuntary innate responses to stimulation are called

Motor actions

Reflex Behaviors

Automatic Behaviour

Limb

5. Piaget’s term for the understanding that a person or object still exists when
out of sight is

Representational Ability

Deferred Imitation
 Object Permanence

object concept

6. Tendency for 8-to-12-month-old infants to search for a hidden object in a

place where they previously found it rather than in the place where they most
recently saw it being hidden

A not C error

B not D error

A not-B Error

D not E error

7. According to Piaget, the tendency of preoperational children to focus on

one aspect of a situation and neglect others is called

Decenter

Centration

Ordinality

Transduction

8. Process by which a child absorbs the meaning of a new word after hearing
it once or twice in conversation is

Grammar

Fast mapping

Syntax

Pragmatics

9. Talking aloud to oneself with no intent to communicate is

Private speech

Fast mapping

Syntax

Pragmatics

10. The concrete operation that involves ordering stimuli along a quantitative
dimension is

Transitive Inference

Class Inclusion
 Seriation

Horizontal decalage

11. Understanding of the relationship between a whole and its parts is called

Transitive Inference

Class Inclusion

Seriation

horizontal decalage

12. Domain-specific evaluations of the self is known as

Bilingualism

Moral Development

Self-concept

Social Comparison

13. _______________________is when young adolescents often do not recognize

the difference between expressing an ideal and making the sacrifices
necessary to live up to it.

Indecisiveness

Argumentativeness:

Apparent Hypocrisy

Idealism

14. The theoretical models that describe psychosocial development in terms

of a definite sequence of age-related changes are

Trait Models

Typological Models

Timing-of-Events-Model

Normative-Stage Models

15. Status of an unmarried couple who live together and maintain a sexual
relationship is

Monogamy

Cohabitation
 Polygyny

Matrimony

16. Cessation of a woman’s menstrual periods, usually in the late forties is

called

Menopause

Climacteric

Perimenopause

Adrenarche

17. Progressive, irreversible degenerative brain disorder characterized by

cognitive deterioration and loss of control of bodily functions is

Alzheimer’s Disease

Parkinson’s Disease

Dementia

Amyloid Plaque

18. Pattern of retirement activity that revolves around family, home and
companions.

Family-focused lifestyle

Balanced Investment

Serious Leisure

Aging

19. Leisure activity requiring skill, attention and commitment

Family-focused lifestyle

Balanced Investment

Serious Leisure

Aging

20. Pattern of working out of psychological issues connected with grief.

Shock

Grief

Grief Work

Bereavement