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CPCE PRACTICE TEST | {LATEST 2026/ 2027
UPDATE} COMPLETE ACTUAL AND AUTHENTIC
EXAM | BRAND NEW!
According to Erickson, will is the basic strength of - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > early childhood
autonomy vs. shame and doubt
Mrs. Harmon, the mother of 18-month-old Bryce, is concerned
that Bryce has not learned to speak very well. He has a
limited vocabulary and seems content to point to the things he
wants. Mrs. Harmon has read several child development
books which indicate that Bryce should be in the stage of
language learning. Mrs. Harmon fears that Bryce is not keeping
up
developmentally. Based on your understanding of the timing of
developmental stages, what would be your best advice? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > c. Developmental stages can be useful guidelines,
but there is a range of normal development within stages.
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Speech and language development primarily occurs during the
preoperational stage of development, which is approximately
birth
to 2 years. Therefore a child at 18 months would still be within
typical development.
Feelings of self-worth, confidence, and competence were
considered by Maslow to be - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > esteem needs
As Selena and her friends are walking home after school they
approach a corner store and see bags of candy and snacks on
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open shelves outside the front door. A young clerk is also outside
waiting for customers. As they get closer, they see the
clerk go inside the store. Selena's friends encourage her to take
a bag of candy, but she refuses. How would an individual in
Kohlberg's conventional stage of moral reasoning explain
Selena's behavior? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > b. Selena didn't take the
candy because it belonged to someone else.
during the conventional stage of development, kids are
concerned with following the rules rigidly
In a number conservation task a set of discrete items is laid out
in two rows They are first laid out in exactly the same way,
and then one row is moved so that the items are farther apart.
Typically, 3- and 4-year-olds: - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 3-4 yr olds
would see the second display as having more because they
haven't mastered the task of conservation while they are still in
the preoperational stage
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8. A therapist congratulates a couple every time they take turns
to speak by acknowledging how hard they are working to
improve their communication skills, stating that they are doing
an excellent job. The couple's ability to take turns increases as
the sessions go by. The therapist's efforts to recognize this
behavior seems to be operating as a form of: a. positive
punishment - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > POsitive reinforcement
The therapist is "adding" (reinforcement) acknowledgement in an
effort to "increase" (positive) the couple's behavior.
9. Which one of the following would be an operational definition
of negative reinforcement? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Becky does not
have to do extra study time on the weekend because she got a
good mark on her exam.
Negative reinforcement is "taking away" (in this case) study time
to "increase" behavior (getting good grades).
If someone is afraid of snakes to the point that even seeing a
picture of one causes extreme fear, a therapist might employ
which classical conditioning technique? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
counterconditioning
type of systematic desensitization
CPCE PRACTICE TEST | {LATEST 2026/ 2027
UPDATE} COMPLETE ACTUAL AND AUTHENTIC
EXAM | BRAND NEW!
According to Erickson, will is the basic strength of - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > early childhood
autonomy vs. shame and doubt
Mrs. Harmon, the mother of 18-month-old Bryce, is concerned
that Bryce has not learned to speak very well. He has a
limited vocabulary and seems content to point to the things he
wants. Mrs. Harmon has read several child development
books which indicate that Bryce should be in the stage of
language learning. Mrs. Harmon fears that Bryce is not keeping
up
developmentally. Based on your understanding of the timing of
developmental stages, what would be your best advice? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > c. Developmental stages can be useful guidelines,
but there is a range of normal development within stages.
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Speech and language development primarily occurs during the
preoperational stage of development, which is approximately
birth
to 2 years. Therefore a child at 18 months would still be within
typical development.
Feelings of self-worth, confidence, and competence were
considered by Maslow to be - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > esteem needs
As Selena and her friends are walking home after school they
approach a corner store and see bags of candy and snacks on
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open shelves outside the front door. A young clerk is also outside
waiting for customers. As they get closer, they see the
clerk go inside the store. Selena's friends encourage her to take
a bag of candy, but she refuses. How would an individual in
Kohlberg's conventional stage of moral reasoning explain
Selena's behavior? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > b. Selena didn't take the
candy because it belonged to someone else.
during the conventional stage of development, kids are
concerned with following the rules rigidly
In a number conservation task a set of discrete items is laid out
in two rows They are first laid out in exactly the same way,
and then one row is moved so that the items are farther apart.
Typically, 3- and 4-year-olds: - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 3-4 yr olds
would see the second display as having more because they
haven't mastered the task of conservation while they are still in
the preoperational stage
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8. A therapist congratulates a couple every time they take turns
to speak by acknowledging how hard they are working to
improve their communication skills, stating that they are doing
an excellent job. The couple's ability to take turns increases as
the sessions go by. The therapist's efforts to recognize this
behavior seems to be operating as a form of: a. positive
punishment - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > POsitive reinforcement
The therapist is "adding" (reinforcement) acknowledgement in an
effort to "increase" (positive) the couple's behavior.
9. Which one of the following would be an operational definition
of negative reinforcement? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Becky does not
have to do extra study time on the weekend because she got a
good mark on her exam.
Negative reinforcement is "taking away" (in this case) study time
to "increase" behavior (getting good grades).
If someone is afraid of snakes to the point that even seeing a
picture of one causes extreme fear, a therapist might employ
which classical conditioning technique? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
counterconditioning
type of systematic desensitization
