Human Development 8610 Code Online Quiz Autumn 2024

The Human Development course, offered under course code 8610 at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), focuses on understanding the various stages and aspects of human growth and development. This quiz serves as the complete assessment for the course, with the university’s LMS allowing students to attempt the quiz three times. Each attempt contains 30 multiple-choice questions (MCQs), making the total number of questions 90 across all three attempts. The solutions for all three attempts’ MCQs are included to aid students in their preparation. For more helpful resources and learning materials, visit our website at mrpakistani.com, and don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, Asif Brain Academy, at Asif Brain Academy YouTube Channel for additional educational support.

8610 Code Online Quiz

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (8610 Code)
Quiz Solution (Autumn 2024)

(1) Triarchic theory consists of three components EXCEPT:

a) Practical

b) Analytical

c) Theoretical

d) Creative

(2) Abstract thinking involves in ————— stage of development:

a) Later childhood

b) Early childhood

c) Prenatal

d) Adolescence

(3) It is said that development is a never-ended process, which of the following principal defines it?

a) Integration

b) Interaction

c) Interrelation

d) Continuity

(4) If you are concerned about your child’s speech or language development, you should see:

a) A special language teacher

b) A speech language pathologist

c) A social worker

d) A literacy expert

(5) According to Piaget, children under what age have no understanding of morality?

a) Children under 9

b) Children under 10

c) Children under 5

d) Children under 6

(6) The most common general innate tendency of the child is_______

a) Intelligence

b) Imitation

c) Motivation

d) Experience

(7) IQ stands for:

a) Intelligence quota

b) Intelligence quotient

c) Irrelevant questions

d) Intelligence questions

(8) Which factor encourages students to become active participants in learning?

a) Reward

b) All of the above

c) Motivation

d) Reinforcement

(9) What type of motivation is not applicable to young children?

a) Achievement motivation

b) None of the above

c) Intrinsic motivation

d) Extrinsic motivation

(10) What is the third stage of Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?

a) Individuals are only concerned with actions that will directly benefit them

b) Individuals are receptive to societal approval or disapproval of their behavior

c) Individuals begin to see their perspective as distinct from that of society’s, and may or may not agree with cultural norms and ethics

d) Individuals reject any societal views of their behavior

(11) In adolescence, behavior and attitude are affected mostly by:

a) Teacher

b) Peers

c) Films

d) Parents

(12) Piaget’s Theory of cognitive development consists of ________ stages.

a) 4

b) 6

c) 5

d) 3

(13) Which factor is helpful in identifying slow learners?

a) Medical reports

b) All of the above

c) Behavior observation

d) Test score

(14) The zone of proximal development (ZPD) is:

a) The child’s physical nearness to another child in the same environment

b) The child’s intelligence quotient (IQ)

c) The child’s capacity to solve problems

d) The distance between the child’s actual developmental level and his/her potential level of development

(15) The vocabulary knowledge of a 4 to 5-year-old child is:

a) 100 words

b) 50 words

c) 500 words

d) 1500 words

(16) Both of Ali’s parents have black hair. His hair is brown. How would you rationalize this difference?

a) Mitosis

b) Alleles

c) Dominant recessive gene

d) Environmental factor

(17) In Autonomous Morality, the child becomes more aware of rules and laws created by people, this statement is given by:

a) Eric Erikson

b) Jean Piaget

c) Corel Gilligan

d) Lawrence Kohlberg

(18) Which one of the good examples of scaffolding (learning of a problem-solving task until the student is able to do it by itself)?

a) Providing a half-solved example

b) Telling them they cannot go home until they solve the problem

c) Offering a reward for solving the problem quickly

d) Telling them that they can do it by trying again and again

(19) What is the relationship between infant reactivity and later shyness?

a) High reactivity leads to high shyness

b) Low reactivity leads to low shyness

c) Low reactivity leads to low shyness

d) High reactivity leads to high shyness

(20) Basic level of speech perception involves the processing of what type of information?

a) Phonemic

b) Grapheme

c) Morphemic

d) Allophone

(21) Children who are given unrestricted freedom:

a) Develop a healthy sense of autonomy

b) Develop the impression that they are not good for anything

c) Develop a sense of guilt

d) Are not able to be appropriately toilet trained

(22) The body undergoes more developmental change during:

a) Birth to two years

b) Young age

c) Early adolescence

d) Late adolescence

(23) Completion record of academic work and other forms of educational evidence is called:

a) Portfolios

b) Result sheet

c) Academic record

d) Score cards

(24) Sheeza is 10 years old and is learning to master skills and work cooperatively with her peers in school. If she successfully masters her current stage of development, then she will experience a sense of competence. If she fails to master her current stage of development, then she will likely feel inadequate. Sheeza is in which of Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development?

a) Autonomy vs. shame and doubt

b) Initiative vs. guilt

c) Trust vs. mistrust

d) Industry vs. inferiority

(25) The Piaget’s stages of cognitive development are treated as fixed and __________ represent a general sequence which is observable in all types of cognitive change:

a) Assimilated

b) Uniform

c) Adaptive

d) Universal

(26) Learning is the result of association of two components, stated by:

a) Thorndike

b) Aristotle

c) Skinner

d) Pavlov

(27) Which feeling is most closely related to the development of multiple personality disorder?

a) Anger

b) Fear

c) Shame

d) Guilt

(28) The study of child development focuses on the:

a) Changes from adolescence to adulthood

b) Changes that occur in larger groups of children

c) Biological changes

d) Growth, change, and stability

(29) Zone of proximal development is a zone in which the students ________:

a) Develop with respect to age

b) Development of cognitive abilities

c) Development of motor skills

d) Develop with respect to experience

(30) Which of the following is not a stage in parental development?

a) Fetus

b) Teratogen

c) Zygote

d) Embryo

(31) The study of meaning, how is meaning created in language?

a) Syntax

b) Semantics

c) Phoneme

d) Morphology

(32) The ability to adapt and learn from one’s experiences is referred to as:

a) Wisdom

b) Adaptability

c) Creativity

d) Intelligence

(33) Which of the following factor will not cause slow learning?

a) Poor social status

b) Occupation of family

c) Poor emotional climate

d) Poor educational environment

(34) Emotional development refers to:

a) The ability to control and manage emotions and of others

b) Understand the emotions of others

c) Understand one’s own emotions

d) The ability to control and manage one’s own emotions and as well as others

(35) If children are exposed to frequent rejection, punishment, teasing, and over solicitude by parents, usually it leads to:

a) Brain disorder

b) Suicide

c) Mental retardation

d) Inferiority feelings

(36) In which stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development did egocentrism and propositional thoughts are main features?

a) Sensorimotor stage

b) Pre-operational stage

c) Formal operation stage

d) Concrete operational stage

(37) The principle that development involves both gains and losses also implies that development is:

a) Multidimensional

b) Lifelong

c) Multidirectional

d) Plastic

(38) The physical changes in body weight and height is referred as:

a) Skeleton growth

b) Change in body size

c) Change in muscle-fat makeup

d) Changes in gross and fine motor skills

(39) Which is a specific emotion related to a successful behavior?

a) Pride

b) Joy

c) Embarrassment

d) Hubris

(40) The first pattern in physical development is:

a) Head to toe

b) Outer to inner

c) Inner to outer

d) Toe to head

(41) Which law of learning states that things most often repeated are best retained?

a) Law of exercise

b) Law of effect

c) Law of recency

d) Law of readiness

(42) Aptitude tests refer to the ____________ to perform a particular task in future:

a) Person’s potential

b) Specific skill

c) Person’s knowledge

d) Specific knowledge

(43) The process which continues throughout one’s life is …………….

a) Development

b) Cognition

c) Growth

d) Maturation

(44) Which of the following points reflect a 5-7 year old’s concept of morality according to Piaget?

a) Rules are created by people and are not absolute

b) Rules and justice can be changed by people in power

c) Justice is determined by parents and only parents

d) Rules and justice are unchangeable and beyond our control

(45) Law of use and disuse also called:

a) Laws of learning

b) Law of exercise

c) Law of readiness

d) Law of effect

(46) Law of effect was developed by:

a) William James

b) Erik Erikson

c) Skinner

d) Edward Thorndike

(47) Inter individual difference emphasize the diversity between groups for:

a) All of the above

b) Gender

c) Ethnic background

d) Age

(48) The fundamental form of learning is:

a) Growth

b) Condition

c) Development

d) Imitation

(49) Test which predicts the possibility of success in future performance:

a) Competence base test

b) Test of personality

c) Test of aptitude

d) Test of general intelligence

(50) Which stage of cognitive development coincides with autonomous morality?

a) Concrete operational

b) Pre-operational

c) Sensory-motor

d) Formal operational

(51) Dementia and Alzheimer’s diseases are usually observed in individuals’ approximate age:

a) 50 years old

b) 65 years old

c) 80 years old

d) 87 years old

(52) Children learn attitudes and values, which are:

a) Covert process

b) Both B & C

c) Emotional development

d) Overt process

(53) Sensorimotor stage is consisted of ____________ age period (in years):

a) 4-6

b) 0-2

c) 2-4

d) 6-8

(54) Which sub-stages are in Kohlberg’s conventional reasoning?

a) Social contract and social systems

b) Individualism and social systems

c) Heteronomous morality and individualism

d) Mutual interpersonal expectations and social systems morality

(55) If a 4 to 5-year-old has not developed all of the necessary characteristics, the child always:

a) Has a language disorder

b) Both of these

c) None of these

d) Has a speech disorder

(56) The nativist perspective is:

a) Learn knowledge

b) Expressive language

c) Receptive language

d) Collaborative learning

(57) When a child’s capability in any particular area of development is low, it:

a) Does not mean delay in any area of development

b) Has no effect on the child

c) Does not influence on its overall development

d) Has an impact on all areas of development

(58) A child does not finish a puzzle in the time they were asked to do. The child responds with “I am bad.” This demonstrates:

a) A specific attribution

b) A poor self-image

c) Internal focus

d) A global attribution

(59) Children in pre-operational stage have difficulty in taking the perspective of another person; this is known as:

a) Egocentrism

b) Reversibility

c) Animism

d) Constructivism

(60) Which of the following is not true about the socio-cultural theory of Vygotsky?

a) It emphasizes the role of socio-cultural environment in cognitive development

b) Children learn very little from performing tasks they can already do independently

c) Concept of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is a part of it

d) It ignores the importance of language in cognitive development

(61) Babies frequently show their first conception of words:

a) At two years

b) 8 to 12 months

c) Toddlerhood

d) Infancy

(62) The period spent in mother’s womb is called:

a) Toddlerhood

b) Early childhood

c) Prenatal

d) Infancy

(63) Why did Lawrence Kohlberg present children with the Heinz dilemma?

a) To assess the children’s moral development

b) To assess the children’s social development

c) To assess the children’s pathological development

d) To assess the children’s physical development

(64) Means of learning is:

a) To memorize the lesson

b) To modify your behavior

c) To write essay

d) To pass the examination

(65) Muscles development rate is much slower at:

a) Young age

b) Infancy

c) Adolescence

d) None of all

(66) From an ecological standpoint, in order to provide adequate services for children with emotional/behavioral disorders, which of the following must be considered:

a) Short-term hospitalization and residential treatment

b) Interagency coordination and a continuum of community-based services

c) Elimination of overlapping services and one agency responsible for all treatment of a particular case

d) Limited outpatient services and long-term residential treatment

(67) Asfand believes that development is a gradual process, or the result of _______ change, whereas Sarmad believes that development is a stage-like process, or the result of change.

a) Qualitative, quantitative

b) Continuous, discontinuous

c) Quantitative, qualitative

d) Discontinuous, continuous

(68) The analytical component deals with __________ to solve problems by analyzing ideas and thinking critically.

a) Data ability

b) Analysis of data

c) Person’s ability

d) Analysis of person

(69) Writing skills are directly associated with:

a) Body coordination

b) Eye-hand coordination

c) Perceptual abilities

d) Visual abilities

(70) What is one way to help develop language at home?

a) Family movies

b) Family journals

c) Family dinner

d) Family meetings

(71) Which one of the following children is displaying preconventional thought?

a) Hina disagrees with her school’s policy on graduating early, but she would never publicly protest it without her school’s permission

b) Abid refuses to obey a law that treats certain people as second-class citizens

c) Mansoor decides not to skip class because he will get in trouble with the principal

d) Natasha does not skip school because she worries about what her friends will say

(72) Dalton plan stressed the principles of:

a) Freedom

b) Creation

c) Restrictions

d) Tradition

(73) What do children struggle to do in the concrete operational stage?

a) Understand the feelings of others

b) Understand abstract ideas

c) Symbolic thought

d) Complete conservation tasks

(74) Incremental view of intelligence is a big controversy of emotional and developmental psychology which means:

a) Development needs supportive circumstances

b) Development needs healthy food

c) Development needs good relations

d) Development needs intelligence

(75) When did Piaget believe a person’s Moral Relativism stage begins?

a) Around age ten

b) Around age thirty

c) Around age two

d) Around age five

(76) Athar takes much time to learn any subject than Ahmad; it proves the —— principle of development.

a) Lack of uniformity in development rate

b) Predictability

c) Uniformity in development pattern

d) Interrelation

(77) Individual differences mean variation or deviations among individuals with respect to:

a) All of the above

b) Mental variations

c) Physical differences

d) Emotional differences

(78) Which of the following statement is correct:

a) All learning is not modification of behavior, but all modification of behaviour is learning

b) All learning is change in behaviour but all changes in behaviour are not learning.

c) All learning is change is not behaviour but all change in behaviour is learning.

d) All learning is modification of behavior, but all modification of behaviour is not learning.

(79) The child we call slow learner is one who:

a) Is required sympathy

b) Needs for financial help

c) Is mentally retarded

d) Needs for special help

(80) Human development starts from:

a) Pre-natal

b) Stage of Infancy

c) Pre childhood

d) Toddlerhood

(81) Trial & Error learning is also known as:

a) Conditioning

b) Connectionism

c) None of the above

d) Insight

(82) Different parts of the body grow at different rate is known as changes in:

a) Muscle-fat makeup

b) Gross and fine motor skills

c) Body size

d) Body proportion

(83) Primary emotions appear:

a) Soon after birth

b) By 3 years old

c) Within the first 12 months

d) Within the first 6 months

(84) The concept of object permanence is attained during Piaget’s __________ stage of development:

b) Sensorimotor stage

a) Formal operation stage

c) Pre-operational stage