CPCE/NCE MASTER EXAM REVIEW
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are:
a. psychometric.
b. psychodiagnostics.
c. psychopharmacological.
d. psychosocial. - Answer-d. psychosocial.
In Freudian theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist. Ego
psychologists:
a. emphasizeid processes.
b. refute the concept of the superego.
c. believe in man's powers of reasoning to control behavior.
d. are sometimes known as radical behaviorists. - Answer-c. believe in man's powers of
reasoning to control behavior.
The only psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory which encompasses the
entire life span was:
a. Erik Erikson.
b. Milton H. Erickson.
c. A. A. Brill.
d. Jean Piaget. - Answer-a. Erik Erikson.
The statement, "the ego is dependent on the id," would most likely reflect the work of:
a. Erik Erikson.
b. Sigmund Freud.
c. Jay Haley.
d. Arnold Lazarus, William Perry, and Robert Kegan - Answer-b. Sigmund Freud.
Jean Piaget's theory has four stages. The correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is:
a. formal operations, concrete operations, pre operations, sensorimotor.
b. formal operations, pre operations, concrete operations, sensorimotor.
c. sensorimotor, pre operations, concrete operations, formal operations.
d. concrete operations, sensorimotor, pre operations, formal operations. - Answer-c.
sensorimotor, pre operations, concrete operations, formal operations.
,Some behavioral scientists have been critical of the Swiss child psychologist Jean
Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as:
a. he utilized the t test too frequently.
b. he failed to check for type 1 or alpha errors.
c. he worked primarily with minority children.
d. his findings were often derived from observing his own children. - Answer-d. his
findings were often derived from observing his own children.
A tall skinny pitcher of water is emptied into a small squatty pitcher. A child indicates
that she feels the small pitcher has less water. The child has not yet mastered:
a. symbolics chema.
b. conservation.
c. androgynous psychosocial issues.
d. trust versus mistrust. - Answer-b. conservation.
In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to:
a. volume or mass.
b. defenses of the ego.
c. the sensorimotor intelligence stage.
d. a specific psychosexual stage of life. - Answer-a. volume or mass.
A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as:
a. formal operations—12 years and older.
b. concrete operations—ages 7 to 11.
c. pre operations—ages 2 to 7.
d. sensorimotor intelligence—birth to 2 years. - Answer-b. concrete operations—ages 7
to 11.
_______ expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development.
a. Erik Erikson
b. The Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky
c. Lawrence Kohlberg
d. John B. Watson - Answer-c. Lawrence Kohlberg
According to Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage, known
as concrete operations or concrete op- erational thought. This notion suggests:
a. that heavier objects are more difficult for a child to lift.
b. the child is ambidextrous.
c. the child is more cognizant of mass than weight.
,d. one can undo an action, hence an object can return to its initial shape. - Answer-d.
one can undo an action, hence an object can return to its initial shape.
During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought
(stage 2) says, "The rain is following me." This is an example of:
a. egocentrism.
b. conservation.
c. centration.
d. abstract thought. - Answer-a. egocentrism.
Lawrence Kohlberg suggested:
a. a single level of morality.
b. two levels of morality.
c. three levels of morality.
d. preoperational thought as the basis for all morality. - Answer-c. three levels of
morality.
The Heinz story is to Kohlberg's theory as:
a. a brick is to a house.
b. Freud is to Jung.
c. the Menninger Clinic is to biofeedback.
d. a typing test is to the level of typing skill mastered. - Answer-d. a typing test is to the
level of typing skill mastered.
15. The term "identity crisis" comes from the work of:
a. counselors who stress RS involvement issues with clients.
b. Erikson.
c. Adler.
d. Jung. - Answer-b. Erikson.
Kohlberg's three levels of morality are:
a. preconventional, conventional, postconventional.
b. formal, preformal, self-accepted.
c. self-accepted, other directed, authority directed.
d. preconventional, formal, authority directed. - Answer-a. preconventional,
conventional, postconventional.
Trust versus mistrust is:
a. an Adlerian notion of morality.
b. Erik Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development.
c. essentially equivalent to Piaget's concept of egocentrism.
, d. the basis of morality according to Kohlberg. - Answer-b. Erik Erikson's first stage of
psychosocial development.
18. A person who has successfully mastered Erikson's first seven stages would be
ready to enter Erikson's final or eighth stage:
a. generativity versus stagnation.
b. initiative versus guilt.
c. identity crisis of the later years.
d. integrity versus despair. - Answer-d. integrity versus despair.
In Kohlberg's first or preconventional level, the individual's moral behavior is guided by:
a. psychosexualurges.
b. consequences.
c. periodicfuguestates.
d. counterconditioning. - Answer-b. consequences.
Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as conventional morality. This level is
characterized by:
a. psychosexualurges.
b. a desire to live up to society's expectations.
c. a desire to conform.
d. b and c. - Answer-d. b and c.
Kohlberg's highest level of morality is termed postconventional morality. Here the
individual:
a. must truly contend with psychosexual urges.
b. has the so-called "good boy/good girl" orientation.
c. has self-imposed morals and ethics.
d. a and b. - Answer-c. has self-imposed morals and ethics.
According to Kohlberg, level 3, which is postconventional or self-accepted moral
principles:
a. refers to the Naive Hedonism stage.
b. operates on the premise that rewards guide morals.
c. a and b.
d. is the highest level of morality. However, some people never reach this level. -
Answer-d. is the highest level of morality. However, some people never reach this level.
The zone of proximal development:
a. was pioneered by Lev Vygotsky.