CPCE Practice Questions With Verified
Answers.
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are...
A) Psychometric
B) Psychodiagnostic
C) Psychopharmacological
D) Psychosocial - answerD) Psychosocial
In Freud's psychodynamic theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ...
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are...
A) Psychometric
B) Psychodiagnostic
C) Psychopharmacological
D) Psychosocial - answer✔D) Psychosocial
In Freud's psychodynamic theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist.
Ego psychologists...
A) Emphasize the id 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, who created the four stage theory - answer✔A) Erik Erikson
Has 8 stages representing a psychosocial crisis/turning point. Final stage does not begin until age
60
The statement, "the ego is dependent on the id," would most likely reflect the work of...
A) Erik Erikson
B) Sigmund Freud, who created the psychodynamic theory
C) Jay Haley
D) Arnold Lazarus, William Perry and Robert Kegan - answer✔B) Sigmund Freud
(In Freudian theory, the id=the pleasure principle. Erikson emphasizes the power of control.
Haley is known for strategic and problem-solving therapy. Lazaras is pioneer in behavior
therapy.
Robert Perry - answer✔-Known for ideas related to adult cognitive development
-Stresses dualistic thinking (conceptualize things as good or bad and right or wrong)
-Enter adulthood and move into relativistic thinking (ability to perceive that not everything is
right or wrong)
Jean Piaget's idiographic approach created his theory with four stages. The correct order from
stage 1 to stage 4 is....
A) formal operations, concrete operations, preoperations, sensorimotor
B) Formal operations, preoperations, concrete operations, sensorimotor
C) Sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
Ideographics - answer✔Examine individuals (not groups) in depth
Some behavioral scientists have been critical of Jean Piaget's developmental research inasmuch
as...
A) he utilized the t test too requently
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) Symbolic schema
B) Conservation
D) Trust vs. mistrust - answer✔B) Conservation
(The notion that a substance's weight, mass and volume remain the same event if it changes
shape. Child masters conservation at concrete operational stage (7-11 years old)
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 Piatetian stage known as..
A) Formal operations (12+)
B) Concrete operations (7-11)
C) Preoperations (2-7)
D) Sensorimotor (birth-2) - answer✔B) Concrete operations (7-11)
(Conservation and Concrete both begin with "c")
________ expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development...
A) Erik Erikson
B) Lev Vygotsky
C) Lawrence Kohlberg
D) John B. Watson - answer✔C) Kohlberg
(Vygotsky said stages unfold due to educational intervention) (Kohlberg's theory of moral
development)
According to Jean Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage, known as
concrete operations or concrete operational thought. This notion suggests...
A) The 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 (glass of water) 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 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
(Child can't view the world from the vantage point of someone else)
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
(Preconventional, conventional and postconventional)
The Heinz dilemma is to Kohberg'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
(Heinz dilemma used to assess moral development)
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
(RS=religious and spiritual)
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