CPCE Practice Questions with COMPLETE
SOLUTION (494 Questions)
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are...
A) Psychometric
B) Psychodiagnostic
C) Psychopharmacological
D) Psychosocial Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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
,D) Concrete operations, sensorimotor, preoperations, formal operations Correct Answer: C)
Sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
Ideographics Correct 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 Correct 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
C) Androgynous psychosocial issues
D) Trust vs. mistrust Correct 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 Correct 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) Correct 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 Correct 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)
Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct Answer: B) Erikson
(RS=religious and spiritual)
(Erikson's stages were defined by crisis)
Kohlber'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 Correct Answer: A) Preconventional,
conventional, postconventional
(Preconventional:child responds to consequences, conventional: individual wants to meet
standards. Postconventional: concerned with universal, ethical principles)
, Trust vs. mistrust is...
A) An Adlerian notion of morality
B) Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development
C) essentially equivalent to Piaget's concept of egocentrism
D)The basis of morality according to Kohlberg Correct Answer: B) Erikson's first stage of
psychosocial development
A person who has successfully mastered Erikson's first seven stages would be ready to enter
Erikson's final or eighth stage...
A) Generativity vs. Stagnation
B) Initiative vs. Guilt
C) Identity crisis
D) integrity vs. Despair Correct Answer: D) Integrity vs. Despair
In Kohlber's first or preconventional level, the individual's moral behavior is guided by...
A) psychosexual urges
B) Consequences
C) periodic fugue states
D) Counterconditioning Correct Answer: B) Consequences
Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as conventional morality. This level is
characterized by...
A) Psychosexual urges
B) A desire to live up to society's expectations
C) A desire to confrom
D) B and C Correct Answer: D) B and C
Kohlber'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 Correct Answer: C) has self-imposed morals and ethics
According to Lawrence 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 Correct Answer:
D) is the highest level of morality. However, some people never reach this level
(Hedonism occurs in preconventional level "If I'm nice others will be nice to me and I'll get what
I want")
Zone of proximal development...
A) was pioneered by Lev Vygotsky
B) was pioneered by Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg
SOLUTION (494 Questions)
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are...
A) Psychometric
B) Psychodiagnostic
C) Psychopharmacological
D) Psychosocial Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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
,D) Concrete operations, sensorimotor, preoperations, formal operations Correct Answer: C)
Sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
Ideographics Correct 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 Correct 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
C) Androgynous psychosocial issues
D) Trust vs. mistrust Correct 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 Correct 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) Correct 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 Correct 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)
Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct Answer: B) Erikson
(RS=religious and spiritual)
(Erikson's stages were defined by crisis)
Kohlber'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 Correct Answer: A) Preconventional,
conventional, postconventional
(Preconventional:child responds to consequences, conventional: individual wants to meet
standards. Postconventional: concerned with universal, ethical principles)
, Trust vs. mistrust is...
A) An Adlerian notion of morality
B) Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development
C) essentially equivalent to Piaget's concept of egocentrism
D)The basis of morality according to Kohlberg Correct Answer: B) Erikson's first stage of
psychosocial development
A person who has successfully mastered Erikson's first seven stages would be ready to enter
Erikson's final or eighth stage...
A) Generativity vs. Stagnation
B) Initiative vs. Guilt
C) Identity crisis
D) integrity vs. Despair Correct Answer: D) Integrity vs. Despair
In Kohlber's first or preconventional level, the individual's moral behavior is guided by...
A) psychosexual urges
B) Consequences
C) periodic fugue states
D) Counterconditioning Correct Answer: B) Consequences
Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as conventional morality. This level is
characterized by...
A) Psychosexual urges
B) A desire to live up to society's expectations
C) A desire to confrom
D) B and C Correct Answer: D) B and C
Kohlber'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 Correct Answer: C) has self-imposed morals and ethics
According to Lawrence 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 Correct Answer:
D) is the highest level of morality. However, some people never reach this level
(Hedonism occurs in preconventional level "If I'm nice others will be nice to me and I'll get what
I want")
Zone of proximal development...
A) was pioneered by Lev Vygotsky
B) was pioneered by Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg
