All Free Psychology MCQs with Answers
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- A. Learning
- B. Past
- C. Coming
- D. Developing
Explanation: The developing years are the period in which habitual behaviours and understandings are acquired to help a person manage later life…
Correct answer: Developing- A. Experience
- B. Life
- C. Development period
- D. Situation to situation
Explanation: Human development begins at conception and continues throughout life, rather than ending at a particular developmental period.
Correct answer: Life- A. Birth
- B. Growth
- C. Education
- D. Action
Explanation: Environmental stimulation can support or hinder an individual's growth and maturation, including physical, cognitive, and emotional…
Correct answer: Growth- A. Learning
- B. Growth
- C. Research
- D. Mental state
Explanation: Growing children need conditions that support healthy physical and psychological development, so parents and teachers may become…
Correct answer: Growth- A. The adolescent strives to grow up, to the big and yet also to have some of the security that goes with being little
- B. There is something radical about - being an adolescent, yet also something radical conservative
- C. The adolescent, if able to draw upon his resources, has a great capacity for flexibility, et he is also in many ways, a rigid person
- D. All of the above
Explanation: Each statement describes a typical tension of adolescence, including the struggle between dependence and independence and between…
Correct answer: All of the above- A. Lying
- B. Cheating
- C. Stealing
- D. All of these
Explanation: Lying, cheating, and stealing are commonly discussed conduct problems or misdemeanours in childhood.
Correct answer: All of these- A. Developmental study of the behavior problems of normal children between twenty-one months and fourteen years
- B. Sociologist
- C. Historian
- D. None of these
Explanation: M. P. Horuik is associated with a developmental study of behaviour problems among otherwise normal children from about 21 months to 14…
Correct answer: Developmental study of the behavior problems of normal children between twenty-one months and fourteen years- A. Greek
- B. Latin
- C. English
- D. Arabic
Explanation: Mores is a Latin term referring to the customs, manners, and folkways of a social group. The word moral developed from this Latin root.
Correct answer: Latin- A. affection, anger, fear
- B. excitement, jealousy, anger
- C. delight, jealousy, fear
- D. anger, fear, joy
Explanation: Anger, fear, and joy are commonly identified as basic emotions that emerge naturally, although their expression develops over time.
Correct answer: anger, fear, joy1050. The effects of environment are those changes which leave their impression on the fertilized cell:
- A. Externally
- B. Internally
- C. Both externally and internally
- D. Generation after generation
Explanation: Environmental influences are external conditions, such as nutrition, illness, and prenatal surroundings, that affect the developing…
Correct answer: Externally- A. Avoidant
- B. Negative attached
- C. Ambivalent/Resistant
- D. Securely attached
Explanation: Ainsworth identified secure, avoidant, and ambivalent or resistant attachment patterns.
Correct answer: Negative attached- A. Blastula
- B. Embryo
- C. Fetus
- D. Zygote
Explanation: The single cell formed when a sperm fertilizes an egg is a zygote. It later divides and develops through embryonic and fetal stages.
Correct answer: Zygote- A. Generativity vs stagnation
- B. Trust vs mistrust
- C. Identity vs role confusion
- D. Intimacy vs isolation
Explanation: Erikson’s intimacy versus isolation stage involves forming close, committed relationships, typically during young adulthood.
Correct answer: Intimacy vs isolation- A. Development
- B. Growth
- C. Environment
- D. Heredity
Explanation: Development includes qualitative and quantitative changes in body organs and in the way they interact with one another.
Correct answer: Development- A. Environment
- B. Parents
- C. Ovum
- D. Sperms
Explanation: Heredity is the transmission of genetically determined traits from parents to their child through genes.
Correct answer: Parents- A. Environment
- B. Heredity
- C. Law of similarity
- D. Law of modification
Explanation: Culture and language are learned through interaction with the social environment rather than inherited directly through heredity.
Correct answer: Environment- A. Genetically
- B. Before the birth of child
- C. At the time of adolescence
- D. None of the above
Explanation: Environmental influences can affect development even before birth, while the developing organism is still a fertilised cell and embryo.
Correct answer: Before the birth of child- A. Before the birth of child
- B. After the birth of child
- C. At the time of adolescence
- D. None of the aboveHire Local Nannies
Explanation: Although the prenatal environment also matters, many observable environmental effects become more apparent after birth through nutrition…
Correct answer: After the birth of child- A. Similarity
- B. Dissimilarity
- C. Recurrence
- D. None of these
Explanation: The statement means that similar causes or conditions tend to produce similar outcomes, which is the principle named the law of…
Correct answer: Similarity- A. Heredity only
- B. Environment only
- C. Interaction between heredity and environment
- D. None of the above
Explanation: Development results from the interaction of inherited potential and environmental influences, such as nutrition, learning and family…
Correct answer: Interaction between heredity and environment