Child Development Quiz
Practice quiz on Child Development (Pedagogy & Reasoning). 10 exam-style questions with explanations.
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All 10 questions from this quiz with the correct answer and explanation. Attempt them yourself first, then open each solution to check your reasoning.
Q1.Who is known as the father of psychoanalysis?
- A.Lev Vygotsky
- B.B.F. Skinner
- C.Sigmund Freud
- D.Jean Piaget
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Answer: C. Sigmund Freud
Freud.
Q2.Piaget's first stage of cognitive development is
- A.Sensorimotor
- B.Formal operational
- C.Preoperational
- D.Concrete operational
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Answer: A. Sensorimotor
Birth to 2 years.
Q3.Which stage covers ages 7 to 11 in Piaget's theory?
- A.Sensorimotor
- B.Concrete operational
- C.Preoperational
- D.Formal operational
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Answer: B. Concrete operational
7 to 11 years.
Q4.Zone of Proximal Development was given by
- A.Bruner
- B.Piaget
- C.Freud
- D.Vygotsky
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Answer: D. Vygotsky
Vygotsky.
Q5.Heredity refers to
- A.Learning from environment
- B.Diet
- C.Transmission of traits from parents to offspring
- D.Social habits
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Answer: C. Transmission of traits from parents to offspring
Genetic transmission.
Q6.Erikson's theory deals with
- A.Psychosocial development
- B.Moral development
- C.Cognitive development
- D.Physical growth only
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Answer: A. Psychosocial development
Psychosocial stages.
Q7.Who propounded the theory of moral development in stages?
- A.Piaget
- B.Kohlberg
- C.Skinner
- D.Pavlov
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Answer: B. Kohlberg
Kohlberg.
Q8.Growth refers to
- A.Social change
- B.Only mental changes
- C.Only emotional changes
- D.Quantitative physical changes
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Answer: D. Quantitative physical changes
Growth is measurable.
Q9.Adolescence is the period roughly between
- A.2 and 6 years
- B.20 and 30 years
- C.6 and 12 years
- D.12 and 19 years
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Answer: D. 12 and 19 years
Teenage years.
Q10.Development is
- A.Only physical
- B.Limited to growth
- C.Continuous and lifelong
- D.Only in childhood
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Answer: C. Continuous and lifelong
It is lifelong.
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