PNCB boards study guide questions and
answers.
Daily caloric requirements from birth to 6 months - Correct Answer 120 kcal/kg/day
Daily caloric requirements from seven months to 1 year - Correct Answer 100 kcal/kg/day
Daily caloric requirements two to 10 years - Correct Answer 70 to 100 kcal/kg/day
Daily caloric requirements for adolescents - Correct Answer 45 kcal/kg/day
Ideal weight gain per day for first three months of life - Correct Answer 30 g/day
Ideal weight gain per day from 3 to 6 months - Correct Answer 15 to 30 g/day
How much iron is needed for exclusively breast-fed infants - Correct Answer 1 mg/kg/day
after 6 months of age
How many inches should be gained per year for three year olds through school age? -
Correct Answer 2.5 inches annually
How much weight should be gained for school-aged children annually? - Correct Answer
5 to 7 lbs annually
Who is the primary theorist for the cognitive Domain? - Correct Answer Jean Piaget
What is the cognitive domain (Piaget) for birth to 2 years of age? - Correct Answer
Sensorimotor: adapts inborn reflexes to environment, object permanence, simple
problem-solving
What is the cognitive domain (Piaget) for 11 to 15 years of age? - Correct Answer Formal
operational thought: ability to abstract, complex problem solving, reality based
What is the cognitive domain (Piaget) for 4 to 7 years of age? - Correct Answer
Intuitive/preoperational: beginning of causation
,Cognitive domain (Piaget) for 7 to 11 years of age? - Correct Answer Concrete thinking:
capable of logical thought, logical operations
Cognitive domain (Piaget) for 2 to 4 years of age? - Correct Answer
Preoperational/Preconceptual: can focus on a single aspect of a situation, no cause-and-
effect reasoning, egocentricism, magical thinking
Who is the primary theorist for the psychosocial domain? - Correct Answer Erik Erikson
What is the major psychosocial stage for school-aged children (6 to 12 yrs) - Correct
Answer Industry vs. inferiority. Achievement.
What is the major psychosocial stage for infancy (birth to 1 year) - Correct Answer Trust
vs. Mistrust
What is the major psychosocial stage for preschool (3 to 6 years)? - Correct Answer
Initiative vs. guilt
What is the major psychosocial stage for Toddlers (1 to 3 yrs)? - Correct Answer
Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
What is the major psychosocial stage for adolescence (12 to 18 yrs)? - Correct Answer
Identity vs. role confusion
Who is the primary psychosexual theorist? - Correct Answer Sigmund Freud
What is the preschool (3 to 6 yrs) stage of psychosexual development? - Correct Answer
Phallic stage (love of opposite sex, Oedipal complex, ego development)
What is the infancy stage of psychosexual development? - Correct Answer Oral stage.
Birth to 6 months: orally passive, development of Id. Seven to 18 months (orally
aggressive, teething)
What is the adolescent stage of psychosexual development? - Correct Answer Genital
stage
,What is the school age (6 to 12 yrs) stage of psychosexual development? - Correct
Answer Latency stage (sexual drive repressed, socialization occrs, super ego)
What is the toddler (1.5 to 3 yrs) stage of psychosexual development? - Correct Answer
Anal stage, controlling stool
What is bone age? - Correct Answer X-ray of tarsals and carpals determines extent of
ossification (bone tissue formation)
What is the Denver II? - Correct Answer Used from birth to 6 years of age to measure
gross and fine motor development, language, and personal-social development.
At what age should you achieve good head control? - Correct Answer 2 to 3 months
At what age should a child use 2-word sentences - Correct Answer 18-22 months or
definitely by 2 years of age
At what age should a child reach for an object? - Correct Answer 3 to 4 months
At what age should a child achieve the pincer grasp? - Correct Answer 8 to 10 months
At what age should you roll from back to front? - Correct Answer 5 to 6 months
At what age should you walk up and down stairs? - Correct Answer 22 to 24 months
At what age should you say mama-dada? - Correct Answer 8 to 9 months
At what age should you be able to point to body parts? - Correct Answer 15 to 18 months
At what age should a child achieve hand-to-hand transfer? - Correct Answer 5 to 6 months
At what age should a child walk? - Correct Answer 12 to 14 months
At what age should a child sit alone? - Correct Answer 7 months
At what age should a child laugh? - Correct Answer 4 to 5 months
, At what age should a child have a 30-50 word vocabulary? - Correct Answer 22 to 24
months
Until what age should a child be in a rear-facing car seat? - Correct Answer At least one to
two years of age
Until what age should a child be in a separate restraint system, car seat? - Correct Answer
4 yrs or 40 lbs
At what age does a child's brain double in size? - Correct Answer by 6 months
Why are children at higher risk for hypoglycemia? - Correct Answer limited store of
glycogen with higher relative metabolism
Why should rotavirus not be given after 32 weeks of age? - Correct Answer Risk for
intussusception
At what age should children stop being given DtaP? - Correct Answer 7 years of age. Give
TDap at that point.
Ages to give DTaP? - Correct Answer 2,4,6, months and two boosters (15 mos and 6 yrs)
Age to give Tdap? - Correct Answer 11 or 12 years
Ages to give Hib? - Correct Answer 2, 4, 6 months and booster (12 mos)
Common reasons to give PPSV23 Pneumovax vaccine? - Correct Answer Sickle cell,
asplenia, HIV infection, renal failure, nephrotic syndrome, chronic cardiac or pulmonary
disease, diabetes
Ages to give polio vaccine? - Correct Answer 2, 4, 6 months, 6 years
Ages to give MMR vaccine? - Correct Answer 1 year and 4 to 6 years
Ages to give varicella vaccine? - Correct Answer 12 months, 4 to 6 years
answers.
Daily caloric requirements from birth to 6 months - Correct Answer 120 kcal/kg/day
Daily caloric requirements from seven months to 1 year - Correct Answer 100 kcal/kg/day
Daily caloric requirements two to 10 years - Correct Answer 70 to 100 kcal/kg/day
Daily caloric requirements for adolescents - Correct Answer 45 kcal/kg/day
Ideal weight gain per day for first three months of life - Correct Answer 30 g/day
Ideal weight gain per day from 3 to 6 months - Correct Answer 15 to 30 g/day
How much iron is needed for exclusively breast-fed infants - Correct Answer 1 mg/kg/day
after 6 months of age
How many inches should be gained per year for three year olds through school age? -
Correct Answer 2.5 inches annually
How much weight should be gained for school-aged children annually? - Correct Answer
5 to 7 lbs annually
Who is the primary theorist for the cognitive Domain? - Correct Answer Jean Piaget
What is the cognitive domain (Piaget) for birth to 2 years of age? - Correct Answer
Sensorimotor: adapts inborn reflexes to environment, object permanence, simple
problem-solving
What is the cognitive domain (Piaget) for 11 to 15 years of age? - Correct Answer Formal
operational thought: ability to abstract, complex problem solving, reality based
What is the cognitive domain (Piaget) for 4 to 7 years of age? - Correct Answer
Intuitive/preoperational: beginning of causation
,Cognitive domain (Piaget) for 7 to 11 years of age? - Correct Answer Concrete thinking:
capable of logical thought, logical operations
Cognitive domain (Piaget) for 2 to 4 years of age? - Correct Answer
Preoperational/Preconceptual: can focus on a single aspect of a situation, no cause-and-
effect reasoning, egocentricism, magical thinking
Who is the primary theorist for the psychosocial domain? - Correct Answer Erik Erikson
What is the major psychosocial stage for school-aged children (6 to 12 yrs) - Correct
Answer Industry vs. inferiority. Achievement.
What is the major psychosocial stage for infancy (birth to 1 year) - Correct Answer Trust
vs. Mistrust
What is the major psychosocial stage for preschool (3 to 6 years)? - Correct Answer
Initiative vs. guilt
What is the major psychosocial stage for Toddlers (1 to 3 yrs)? - Correct Answer
Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
What is the major psychosocial stage for adolescence (12 to 18 yrs)? - Correct Answer
Identity vs. role confusion
Who is the primary psychosexual theorist? - Correct Answer Sigmund Freud
What is the preschool (3 to 6 yrs) stage of psychosexual development? - Correct Answer
Phallic stage (love of opposite sex, Oedipal complex, ego development)
What is the infancy stage of psychosexual development? - Correct Answer Oral stage.
Birth to 6 months: orally passive, development of Id. Seven to 18 months (orally
aggressive, teething)
What is the adolescent stage of psychosexual development? - Correct Answer Genital
stage
,What is the school age (6 to 12 yrs) stage of psychosexual development? - Correct
Answer Latency stage (sexual drive repressed, socialization occrs, super ego)
What is the toddler (1.5 to 3 yrs) stage of psychosexual development? - Correct Answer
Anal stage, controlling stool
What is bone age? - Correct Answer X-ray of tarsals and carpals determines extent of
ossification (bone tissue formation)
What is the Denver II? - Correct Answer Used from birth to 6 years of age to measure
gross and fine motor development, language, and personal-social development.
At what age should you achieve good head control? - Correct Answer 2 to 3 months
At what age should a child use 2-word sentences - Correct Answer 18-22 months or
definitely by 2 years of age
At what age should a child reach for an object? - Correct Answer 3 to 4 months
At what age should a child achieve the pincer grasp? - Correct Answer 8 to 10 months
At what age should you roll from back to front? - Correct Answer 5 to 6 months
At what age should you walk up and down stairs? - Correct Answer 22 to 24 months
At what age should you say mama-dada? - Correct Answer 8 to 9 months
At what age should you be able to point to body parts? - Correct Answer 15 to 18 months
At what age should a child achieve hand-to-hand transfer? - Correct Answer 5 to 6 months
At what age should a child walk? - Correct Answer 12 to 14 months
At what age should a child sit alone? - Correct Answer 7 months
At what age should a child laugh? - Correct Answer 4 to 5 months
, At what age should a child have a 30-50 word vocabulary? - Correct Answer 22 to 24
months
Until what age should a child be in a rear-facing car seat? - Correct Answer At least one to
two years of age
Until what age should a child be in a separate restraint system, car seat? - Correct Answer
4 yrs or 40 lbs
At what age does a child's brain double in size? - Correct Answer by 6 months
Why are children at higher risk for hypoglycemia? - Correct Answer limited store of
glycogen with higher relative metabolism
Why should rotavirus not be given after 32 weeks of age? - Correct Answer Risk for
intussusception
At what age should children stop being given DtaP? - Correct Answer 7 years of age. Give
TDap at that point.
Ages to give DTaP? - Correct Answer 2,4,6, months and two boosters (15 mos and 6 yrs)
Age to give Tdap? - Correct Answer 11 or 12 years
Ages to give Hib? - Correct Answer 2, 4, 6 months and booster (12 mos)
Common reasons to give PPSV23 Pneumovax vaccine? - Correct Answer Sickle cell,
asplenia, HIV infection, renal failure, nephrotic syndrome, chronic cardiac or pulmonary
disease, diabetes
Ages to give polio vaccine? - Correct Answer 2, 4, 6 months, 6 years
Ages to give MMR vaccine? - Correct Answer 1 year and 4 to 6 years
Ages to give varicella vaccine? - Correct Answer 12 months, 4 to 6 years
