All Free Psychology MCQs with Answers
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- A. Competency
- B. Hope
- C. Purpose
- D. Willpower
Explanation: In Erikson's first psychosocial stage, successfully resolving trust versus mistrust develops the basic virtue of hope.
Correct answer: Hope- A. we are born.
- B. we are made.
- C. we are both born and made.
- D. neither.
Explanation: Psychology generally explains development through the interaction of heredity and environment, often called the nature-nurture…
Correct answer: we are both born and made.- A. 1.25
- B. 8
- C. 10
- D. 12.5
Explanation: Mental age refers to the age level at which a child's performance falls, not the child's actual chronological age.
Correct answer: 10- A. childhood
- B. adolescence
- C. early adulthood
- D. late adulthood
Explanation: The sensitive period for mastering grammar, especially native-like grammar, is strongest during childhood and becomes less favorable with…
Correct answer: childhood- A. babbling
- B. morpheme induction
- C. telegraphic speech
- D. aphasia
Explanation: Telegraphic speech consists of short two- or three-word combinations that retain the key meaning words while omitting many grammatical…
Correct answer: telegraphic speech- A. overgeneralization
- B. over-discrimination
- C. under-generalization
- D. telegraphic speech
Explanation: Overgeneralization occurs when a child applies a learned word too broadly, such as using “daddy” for every man.
Correct answer: overgeneralization- A. one-word
- B. babbling
- C. two-word
- D. phonetic
Explanation: Telegraphic speech appears in the two-word stage, when children combine a few meaningful words such as “want juice” while omitting…
Correct answer: two-word- A. babbling
- B. telegraphic speech
- C. one-word
- D. semantic
Explanation: Babbling is generally treated as the earliest recognized stage of speech development, following early crying and cooing vocalizations.
Correct answer: babbling- A. phonemes
- B. basic cry
- C. babbling
- D. anagrammatic
Explanation: Babbling is usually considered the final major pre-linguistic stage before meaningful speech develops.
Correct answer: babbling- A. oxygen deprivation during prenatal development
- B. fetal alcohol syndrome
- C. Down's syndrome
- D. prenatal smoking
Explanation: Down syndrome commonly results from chromosomal nondisjunction, and the risk is associated particularly with maternal age at conception.
Correct answer: Down's syndrome- A. trust vs. mistrust
- B. autonomy vs. doubt
- C. intimacy vs. isolation
- D. identity vs. role confusion
Explanation: Erikson's intimacy-versus-isolation stage concerns forming close relationships while maintaining a healthy sense of self.
Correct answer: intimacy vs. isolation- A. trust vs. mistrust
- B. generativity vs. isolation
- C. intimacy vs. isolation
- D. integrity vs. despair
Explanation: Choosing a life partner and deciding about children are central adult relationship and commitment concerns, fitting Erikson's…
Correct answer: intimacy vs. isolation- A. generativity
- B. intimacy
- C. isolation
- D. integrity
Explanation: Integrity is achieved when an older person accepts the life they have lived as meaningful and whole, with a sense of completion.
Correct answer: integrity- A. adolescence
- B. young adulthood
- C. middle adulthood
- D. late adulthood
Explanation: Erikson places the task of achieving integrity in late adulthood, when people reflect on and evaluate their lives.
Correct answer: late adulthood- A. larger number of schemes
- B. new kind of scheme
- C. increasing use of accommodation
- D. increasing use of assimilation
Explanation: For Piaget, each stage introduces qualitatively different ways of thinking, represented by new kinds of schemas.
Correct answer: new kind of scheme- A. mental retardation
- B. lower birth weight
- C. miscarriage
- D. visual defects
Explanation: Prenatal smoking is linked with miscarriage, reduced birth weight, and later cognitive or developmental problems, whereas visual defects…
Correct answer: visual defects- A. emotional
- B. physical
- C. moral
- D. social
Explanation: Piaget explained how thinking develops, while Kohlberg applied a stage-based approach to the development of moral reasoning.
Correct answer: moral- A. genes or experience
- B. continuity or stages
- C. life-span stability or change
- D. maturation or genes
Explanation: Nature refers mainly to inherited genetic influences, while nurture refers to learning and environmental experience.
Correct answer: genes or experience- A. social learning theory
- B. psychoanalytical theory
- C. evolutionary theory
- D. gender schema theory
Explanation: Gender schema theory proposes that children organize information and interpret their own behaviour through mental categories labelled…
Correct answer: gender schema theory- A. stranger anxiety
- B. egocentrism
- C. basic trust
- D. object permanence
Explanation: Erikson’s first psychosocial stage is trust versus mistrust, and dependable caregiving supports basic trust.
Correct answer: basic trust