PNCB EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED DETAILED ANSWER S (VERIFIED DETAILED
ANSWER S) |BRAND NEW VERSION!!
What is the developmental stage and age range defined as experiencing the world
through senses and actions? - DETAILED ANSWER -Piaget's Sensorimotor, Birth to 2
years
What is the developmental stage and age range defined as representing things with
words and images? - DETAILED ANSWER -Piaget's Preoperational, 2 to 6 years old
What is the developmental stage and age range defined as thinking logically about
concrete events and grasping concrete analogies? - DETAILED ANSWER -Piaget's
Concrete Operational, 7 to 11 years old
What is the developmental stage and age range defined as thinking about hypothetical
scenarios and processing abstract thoughts? - DETAILED ANSWER -Piaget's Formal
Operational, 12 to adulthood
What age range is Piaget's Formal Operational? - DETAILED ANSWER -12 to adulthood
What age range is Piaget's Concrete Operational? - DETAILED ANSWER -7 to 11 years
old
,What age range is Piaget's Preoperational? - DETAILED ANSWER -2 to 6 years old
What age range is Piaget's Sensorimotor? - DETAILED ANSWER -Birth to 2 years old
Describe independent play - DETAILED ANSWER -Common in ages 2-3
They are uninterested in or is unaware of what others are doing.
They are playing alone and maintains focus on its activity.
What stage of play is defined by playing alone and uninterested in or unaware of what
others are doing? - DETAILED ANSWER -Independent play
Describe Parallel Play - DETAILED ANSWER -Children play adjacent to each other, but
don't influence each other's play.
They are interested in what other children are playing, but plays alone. Ages
2-3, but can start after 1st birthday
What stage of play is defined as interested in another's activity but playing along side
them without influencing or interacting with them? - DETAILED ANSWER -Parallel play
What differentiates Parallel play vs Associative play? - DETAILED ANSWER -Interaction.
There is interaction with associative play, not with Parallel play. In Associative, there is
interest but no coordinated activity.
What type of head trauma is typically associated with vacuum deliveries? - DETAILED
ANSWER -
, Subgaleal hemorrhage - ruptured emissary vein caused by fragmentation of the parietal
bone associated with skull fracture. Can extend to the neck and orbits. May have
crepitus, fluid waves and ill-defined borders
A quad screen expected result for a child with down syndrome would read? - DETAILED
ANSWER -
Low levels of AFP
What AFP level would you expect in a child with esophageal atresia? - DETAILED
ANSWER -High
An 8 month old infant presents with significant head lag, what are you suspicious of? -
DETAILED ANSWER -Cerebral Palsy
When is an infant expected to double it's birth weight by? - DETAILED ANSWER -5
months?
When is an infant expected to triple it's birth weight by? - DETAILED ANSWER -1 year
Pregnant Greeks and pregnant woman living in higher elevations should have their
newborns followed for? - DETAILED ANSWER -higher risk of hyperbilirubinemia
An indirect bili measures conjugated or unconjugated bili? - DETAILED ANSWER -
unconjugated
An infant presents with elevated total bili, what should you suspect? - DETAILED
ANSWER -biliary atresia
CORRECT DETAILED DETAILED ANSWER S (VERIFIED DETAILED
ANSWER S) |BRAND NEW VERSION!!
What is the developmental stage and age range defined as experiencing the world
through senses and actions? - DETAILED ANSWER -Piaget's Sensorimotor, Birth to 2
years
What is the developmental stage and age range defined as representing things with
words and images? - DETAILED ANSWER -Piaget's Preoperational, 2 to 6 years old
What is the developmental stage and age range defined as thinking logically about
concrete events and grasping concrete analogies? - DETAILED ANSWER -Piaget's
Concrete Operational, 7 to 11 years old
What is the developmental stage and age range defined as thinking about hypothetical
scenarios and processing abstract thoughts? - DETAILED ANSWER -Piaget's Formal
Operational, 12 to adulthood
What age range is Piaget's Formal Operational? - DETAILED ANSWER -12 to adulthood
What age range is Piaget's Concrete Operational? - DETAILED ANSWER -7 to 11 years
old
,What age range is Piaget's Preoperational? - DETAILED ANSWER -2 to 6 years old
What age range is Piaget's Sensorimotor? - DETAILED ANSWER -Birth to 2 years old
Describe independent play - DETAILED ANSWER -Common in ages 2-3
They are uninterested in or is unaware of what others are doing.
They are playing alone and maintains focus on its activity.
What stage of play is defined by playing alone and uninterested in or unaware of what
others are doing? - DETAILED ANSWER -Independent play
Describe Parallel Play - DETAILED ANSWER -Children play adjacent to each other, but
don't influence each other's play.
They are interested in what other children are playing, but plays alone. Ages
2-3, but can start after 1st birthday
What stage of play is defined as interested in another's activity but playing along side
them without influencing or interacting with them? - DETAILED ANSWER -Parallel play
What differentiates Parallel play vs Associative play? - DETAILED ANSWER -Interaction.
There is interaction with associative play, not with Parallel play. In Associative, there is
interest but no coordinated activity.
What type of head trauma is typically associated with vacuum deliveries? - DETAILED
ANSWER -
, Subgaleal hemorrhage - ruptured emissary vein caused by fragmentation of the parietal
bone associated with skull fracture. Can extend to the neck and orbits. May have
crepitus, fluid waves and ill-defined borders
A quad screen expected result for a child with down syndrome would read? - DETAILED
ANSWER -
Low levels of AFP
What AFP level would you expect in a child with esophageal atresia? - DETAILED
ANSWER -High
An 8 month old infant presents with significant head lag, what are you suspicious of? -
DETAILED ANSWER -Cerebral Palsy
When is an infant expected to double it's birth weight by? - DETAILED ANSWER -5
months?
When is an infant expected to triple it's birth weight by? - DETAILED ANSWER -1 year
Pregnant Greeks and pregnant woman living in higher elevations should have their
newborns followed for? - DETAILED ANSWER -higher risk of hyperbilirubinemia
An indirect bili measures conjugated or unconjugated bili? - DETAILED ANSWER -
unconjugated
An infant presents with elevated total bili, what should you suspect? - DETAILED
ANSWER -biliary atresia
