An infant acts relatively indifferent to her mother’s presence, does not seem greatly disturbed by her departure, and does not go to her when she returns. This is an example of which type of infant attachment style according to Marry Ainsworth and colleagues?

A. Secure attachment
B. Increase attachment /resistant
C. Insecure attachment/avoidant
D. Preoperational attachment

According to Piaget, the preoperational stage refers to the development of which cognitive abilities in children?

A. Child begins to speak for the first time
B. Child begins to recognize faces of primary caregivers
C. Child begins to solve problems logically
D. Child begins to represent the world symbolically but remains intutive and egocentric

Which if any, of these statements about Piaget’s conservation test is accurate?

A. The conservation test can only be conducted with children aged under 5 years.
B. In the water conservation task, the level of liquid is maintained at exactly the same height when it is transferred to a differently shaped beaker
C. Th pre-operational child’s judgement is swayed by one dimension, such as the fact that the contents of one beaker look taller than the other
D. None of the above

How does Noam Chomsky explain the rapid and complex acquistion of language in children?

A. Knowledge of language is modeled from caregivers
B. Knowledge of language is innate
C. Knowledge of language is reinforced in school
D. Knowledge of language is reinforced and practiced with peer groups

Which of the statement given below is an accurate assertion in relation to learning about gender?

A. Children do not segregate by gender in the pre-school years.
B. It is generally accepted that gender roles are acquired because of our biological pre-programming
C. By the early pre-school years, most or children know whether they are a boy or girl and can distinguish men from women.
D. Girls initially tend to be more physically active than boys.

Which of the following statements about theory of mind is ?

A. Theory of mind refers to the understanding that people have mental states that influence our behaviour
B. Findings from theory of mind studies indicate that pre-schoolers have few problems understanding is an outcome of their mental states.
C. Mental states include thoughts beliefs, feelings, desires
D. If you have a theory of mind. you understand that people act according to what they beelieve to the case

Which of the following is NOT the case regarding human infants?

A. Infants are independent upon others for the provision of basic needs.
B. Infants are unable to process perceptual information.
C. Babies have an array of perceptual and physical capacities which enable them to engage with the world in more complex ways than once believed.
D. Some of the baby’s capacities seem to be presant at birth. some develop rapidly during the first year or so, and some very according to the opportunities for exercising them.

Which of the following assertions about object permanance is NOT actually the case?

A. In the first few months of life, the stability of objects in their lives is generally beyond infants’ control.
B. Object permanence is the nation that an object exists only while we can see it.
C. Piaget maintained that very young infants have no conception of the durability objects.
D. Developments during the sensorimotor stage of development include learning to use objects as tools.

Which one of the statements below is correct in relation to children’s perceptual and motor development in the pre-school years?

A. By the age of 2, many children have begun to walk unaided manipulate objects independently
B. A 3-years-old is likely to be quite mobile but may find it difficult to run
C. A typical 3-years old has the same agility as a typical 5-years old
D. Skills such as throwing and catching jumping and hopping begin to emerge at around t to 8 years

All of the following factors contribute to individuals’ unrealistic optimism about their chances of getting an illness or other health problems except for:

A. Lack of personal experience with the problem
B. Belief the problem is preventable by individual action
C. Belief the problem will not appear in the future if it has not yet appeared
D. Belief that parents’ health is the sole determinant of their health problems