NCTRC Actual Questions and Correct Answers
Q1
Contingent Feedback
Answer: acknowledge the effort the person makes. Avoid direct negative statements
Q2
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: 0-2 years old
Answer: Name: OralPleasure Source: Mouth (sucking, biting, swallowing) Conflict:
Weaning away from mother's breast
Q3
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: 2-4 years old
Answer: Name: AnalPleasure Source: Anus (defecating or holding feces) Conflict:
Toilet training
Q4
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: 4-5 years old
Answer: Name: PhallicPleasure Source: GenitalsConflict: Oedipus (boys), Electra (girls)
Q5
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: 6 years old - puberty
Answer: Name: LatencyPleasure Source: Sexual urges sublimated into sport and
hobbies; same-sex friend also help avoid sexual feelingsConflict:
Q6
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: puberty onwards
Answer: Name: GenitalPleasure Source: Physical sexual changes reawaken repressed
needs; direct sexual feelings towards others lead to sexual gratificationConflict: Social
rules
,Q7
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Oral-Sensory (Birth to 1 year)
Answer: Trust vs. mistrust: Babies learn either to trust or mistrust that others will
care for their basic needs including nourishment, sucking, warm, cleanliness, and
physical contact
Q8
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Musculo-Anal (1-3 years)
Answer: Autonomy vs. shame and doubt: Children learn to either be self-sufficient in
many activities, including tolerating, feeding, walking, and talking or to doubt their
own abilities
Q9
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development:Locomotor-Genital (3-5 years)
Answer: Initiative vs. guilt: Children want to undertake many adult like activities,
sometimes overstepping the limits set by parents and feel guilty
Q10
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Latency (6-11 years)
Answer: Industry vs. inferiority: Children busily learn to be competent and productive
to feel inferior and unable to do anything well
Q11
Identity vs. role confusion: Adolescents try to figure out "Who Am I?" and they establish sexual,
ethnic, and career identities, or are confused about what future roles to play
Answer: Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development:Adolescence (12-18 years)
Q12
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Young Adulthood (19-35 years)
Answer: Intimacy vs. isolation: Young adults seek companionship and love with
another person or become isolated from others
, Q13
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development:Adulthood (35-50 years)
Answer: Generativity vs. stagnation:* Middle aged adults are productive, performing
meaningful work, and raising a family, or become stagnant and inactive
Q14
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Maturity (50+)
Answer: Integrity vs. despair: Older adults try to make send out of their lives, either
seeing life as meaningful and whole or despairing at goals never reached and
questions never answered
Q15
Piaget Theory of Cognitive Development: Sensory-Motor (Birth to 2 years)
Answer: Differentiates self from objects Recognizes self as agent of action and begins
to act intentionally (ex: pulls a strong to set mobile in motion or shakes a rattle to
make noise) Achieves object permanence, realizes that things continue to exist even
when no longer present to the sense
Q16
Piaget Theory of Cognitive Development: Pre-Operational (2-7 years)
Answer: Learns to use language and to represent objects by images and words
Thinking is still egocentric, has difficulty taking the viewpoints of others Classifies
objects by a single feature (ex: groups together all red blocks, regardless of shape, or
all the square blocks, regardless of color)
Q17
Piaget Theory of Cognitive Development: Concrete Operational (7-11 years)
Answer: Can think logically about objects and events Achieves conservation of number
(age 6), mass (age 7), and weight (age 9) Classifies objects according to several
features and can order them in a series along a single dimension, such as size
Q18
Piaget Theory of Cognitive Development: Formal Operational (11+)
Answer: Can think logically about abstract prepositions and test hypothesis
systematically Becomes concerned with the hypothetical, the future, and ideological
problems
Q1
Contingent Feedback
Answer: acknowledge the effort the person makes. Avoid direct negative statements
Q2
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: 0-2 years old
Answer: Name: OralPleasure Source: Mouth (sucking, biting, swallowing) Conflict:
Weaning away from mother's breast
Q3
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: 2-4 years old
Answer: Name: AnalPleasure Source: Anus (defecating or holding feces) Conflict:
Toilet training
Q4
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: 4-5 years old
Answer: Name: PhallicPleasure Source: GenitalsConflict: Oedipus (boys), Electra (girls)
Q5
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: 6 years old - puberty
Answer: Name: LatencyPleasure Source: Sexual urges sublimated into sport and
hobbies; same-sex friend also help avoid sexual feelingsConflict:
Q6
Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory: puberty onwards
Answer: Name: GenitalPleasure Source: Physical sexual changes reawaken repressed
needs; direct sexual feelings towards others lead to sexual gratificationConflict: Social
rules
,Q7
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Oral-Sensory (Birth to 1 year)
Answer: Trust vs. mistrust: Babies learn either to trust or mistrust that others will
care for their basic needs including nourishment, sucking, warm, cleanliness, and
physical contact
Q8
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Musculo-Anal (1-3 years)
Answer: Autonomy vs. shame and doubt: Children learn to either be self-sufficient in
many activities, including tolerating, feeding, walking, and talking or to doubt their
own abilities
Q9
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development:Locomotor-Genital (3-5 years)
Answer: Initiative vs. guilt: Children want to undertake many adult like activities,
sometimes overstepping the limits set by parents and feel guilty
Q10
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Latency (6-11 years)
Answer: Industry vs. inferiority: Children busily learn to be competent and productive
to feel inferior and unable to do anything well
Q11
Identity vs. role confusion: Adolescents try to figure out "Who Am I?" and they establish sexual,
ethnic, and career identities, or are confused about what future roles to play
Answer: Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development:Adolescence (12-18 years)
Q12
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Young Adulthood (19-35 years)
Answer: Intimacy vs. isolation: Young adults seek companionship and love with
another person or become isolated from others
, Q13
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development:Adulthood (35-50 years)
Answer: Generativity vs. stagnation:* Middle aged adults are productive, performing
meaningful work, and raising a family, or become stagnant and inactive
Q14
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: Maturity (50+)
Answer: Integrity vs. despair: Older adults try to make send out of their lives, either
seeing life as meaningful and whole or despairing at goals never reached and
questions never answered
Q15
Piaget Theory of Cognitive Development: Sensory-Motor (Birth to 2 years)
Answer: Differentiates self from objects Recognizes self as agent of action and begins
to act intentionally (ex: pulls a strong to set mobile in motion or shakes a rattle to
make noise) Achieves object permanence, realizes that things continue to exist even
when no longer present to the sense
Q16
Piaget Theory of Cognitive Development: Pre-Operational (2-7 years)
Answer: Learns to use language and to represent objects by images and words
Thinking is still egocentric, has difficulty taking the viewpoints of others Classifies
objects by a single feature (ex: groups together all red blocks, regardless of shape, or
all the square blocks, regardless of color)
Q17
Piaget Theory of Cognitive Development: Concrete Operational (7-11 years)
Answer: Can think logically about objects and events Achieves conservation of number
(age 6), mass (age 7), and weight (age 9) Classifies objects according to several
features and can order them in a series along a single dimension, such as size
Q18
Piaget Theory of Cognitive Development: Formal Operational (11+)
Answer: Can think logically about abstract prepositions and test hypothesis
systematically Becomes concerned with the hypothetical, the future, and ideological
problems
