HUMAN GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT CPCE
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025-2026
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are - ANS-psychosocial.
In Freudian theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist. Ego
psychologists - ANS-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 - ANS-Erik Erikson.
The statement, "the ego is dependent on the id," would most likely reflect the work of -
ANS-Sigmund Freud.
Jean Piaget's theory has four stages. The correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is - ANS-
sensorimotor, preparations, concrete operations, formal operations.
Some behavioral scientists have been critical of the Swiss child psychologist Jean
Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as - ANS-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 - ANS-
conservation.
In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to - ANS-volume or mass.
A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as - ANS-concrete
operations—ages 7 to 11.
_______ expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development. - ANS-Lawrence
Kohlberg
According to Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage,
known as concrete operations or concrete op- erational thought. This notion suggests -
ANS-one can undo an action, hence an object can return to its initial shape.
During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought
(stage 2) says, "The rain is following me." This is an example of - ANS-egocentrism.
Lawrence Kohlberg suggested - ANS-three levels of morality.
The Heinz story is to Kohlberg's theory as - ANS-a typing test is to the level of typing
skill mastered.
The term identity crisis comes from the work of - ANS-Erikson.
Kohlberg's three levels of morality are - ANS-pre-conventional, conventional, and post-
conventional.
Trust versus mistrust is - ANS-Erik 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, - ANS-integrity versus despair.
DEVELOPMENT CPCE
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025-2026
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are - ANS-psychosocial.
In Freudian theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist. Ego
psychologists - ANS-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 - ANS-Erik Erikson.
The statement, "the ego is dependent on the id," would most likely reflect the work of -
ANS-Sigmund Freud.
Jean Piaget's theory has four stages. The correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is - ANS-
sensorimotor, preparations, concrete operations, formal operations.
Some behavioral scientists have been critical of the Swiss child psychologist Jean
Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as - ANS-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 - ANS-
conservation.
In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to - ANS-volume or mass.
A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as - ANS-concrete
operations—ages 7 to 11.
_______ expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development. - ANS-Lawrence
Kohlberg
According to Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage,
known as concrete operations or concrete op- erational thought. This notion suggests -
ANS-one can undo an action, hence an object can return to its initial shape.
During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought
(stage 2) says, "The rain is following me." This is an example of - ANS-egocentrism.
Lawrence Kohlberg suggested - ANS-three levels of morality.
The Heinz story is to Kohlberg's theory as - ANS-a typing test is to the level of typing
skill mastered.
The term identity crisis comes from the work of - ANS-Erikson.
Kohlberg's three levels of morality are - ANS-pre-conventional, conventional, and post-
conventional.
Trust versus mistrust is - ANS-Erik 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, - ANS-integrity versus despair.
