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Developmental MCQs

Georgina Anderson 67 questions

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  1. 1A researcher reports that boys show more physical aggression than girls in free play. She is able to demonstrate consistency of results across time, situations, and observers.
    Therefore, her findings are:
    1. AReliable
    2. BValid
    3. CProven
    4. DAll of the above
    5. ENone of the above
  2. 2A researcher uses looking preferences to assess categorisation abilities of babies who cannot yet speak. She is able to demonstrate that the measure she uses accurately reflects the variables that are under study.
    Therefore, her findings are:
    1. AReliable
    2. BValid
    3. CProven
    4. DAll of the above
    5. ENone of the above
  3. 3A researcher measures children’s language development by administering questionnaires to parents.
    Possible problems?
    1. AParental questionnaires are never valid.
    2. BParental answers are seldom reliable.
    3. CParental answers are not suitable for assessment of children’ s verbal behaviour.
    4. DMay be inferior to measuring the behaviour directly.
    5. EAll of the above
  4. 4A researcher measures children’s cognitive development by asking questions about a hypothetical situation.
    Possible problems?
    1. AChildren may know something but be unable to explain it.
    2. BDifferent children may get different prompts, depending on their previous answers.
    3. CExperimenter may be biased in interpreting the answers.
    4. DMay be inferior to measuring the behaviour directly.
    5. EAll of the above
  5. 5A researcher measures play behaviour of a few children over a long period of time, in daily structured play sessions.
    Possible problems?
    1. AChildren will get bored with this and underperform.
    2. BResults will be insufficient to draw valid conclusions.
    3. CResults may not generalise to other children.
    4. DAll of the above
  6. 6Say that we found that watching a lot of violence on TV is correlated with disruptive behaviours in children.
    What conclusions can be drawn from this?
    1. ATV violence may cause disruptive behaviour.
    2. BParents of disruptive children allow them to watch more TV programmes.
    3. CAll of the above could be true.
    4. DDisruptive children prefer to view programmes with violent contents.
    5. ENone of the above is true
  7. 7A researcher reported that 3-year-old children have longer attention span than 2-year-old children, as they remembered more pictures shown in a test. She used a cross-sectional design, and tested 25 children in each group.
    1. AData are not valid or reliable.
    2. BData are not generalisible to other 2- and 3-year-olds.
    3. CData cannot tell us about the development of individual children.
    4. DAll of the above is true.
    5. ENone of the above is true.
  8. 8A researcher reported that 3-year-old children have longer attention span than 2-year-old children, as they remembered more pictures shown in a test. She used a longitudinal design, and tested 25 children, so:
    1. AData are not valid or reliable.
    2. BData may not be generalisible to other children because of cohort and practice effects.
    3. CData cannot tell us about the development of individual children.
    4. DAll of the above is true.
    5. ENone of the above is true.
  9. 9A researcher reported that 3-year-old children have longer attention span than 2-year-old children, as they remembered more pictures shown in a test. She used a longitudinal design, and tested 25 children, so:
    1. AData are not valid or reliable.
    2. BData may not be generalisible to other children because of cohort and practice effects.
    3. CData cannot tell us about the development of individual children.
    4. DAll of the above is true.
    5. ENone of the above is true.
  10. 10Recommended for women in general: up to 14-21 units / week, so up to 2-3 units per day is OK. How much is it safe to drink in pregnancy?
    1. ANo drinking at all
    2. BOne unit per day
    3. CTwo units per day
    4. DThree units per day

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Quiz on Developmental MCQs, created by Georgina Anderson on 30/04/2017.
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