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Human Development Nursing Questions
Human Development Nursing Questions
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A. concrete operational
B. sensorimotor stage
C. preoperational stage (Correct Answer)
D. formal operations
Q.3) According to Piaget, children in the concrete operational stage have difficulty
with---------------
A. Perspective-taking
B. Deductive logic (Your Answer)
C. Inductive logic
D. Conservation
Q.4) Jane has learned to feed herself with a spoon. When her mother gives her a fork,
she immediately begins to feed herself. Jane has __________ the fork into her
schema for utensils.
A. Accommodated
B. Appropriated
C. Assimilated (Correct Answer)
D. Initiated
Q.5) The ability to think abstractly and systematically solve problems emerges during
the:
A. Preoperational Stage
B. Concrete Operational Stage (Your Answer)
C. Sensorimotor Stage
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Q.6) Jane's mother has two crackers, both of equal size. She breaks one of the
crackers up into four pieces. Jane says she wants the one with the most and
immediately chooses the four pieces, even though the two amounts are equal.
Jane's choice illustrates Piaget's concept of:
A. Accommodation
B. Egocentrism (
C. False belief
D. Conservation (Correct Answer)
Q.7) Children begin to develop symbols to represent events or objects in the world
during the ________________ substage of the sensorimotor stage:
Q.8) Piaget believed that children in the preoperational stage have difficulty taking the
perspective of another person. This is known as
A. Reversibility
B. Egocentrism (Your Answer)
C. Metacognition
D. Constructivism
Q.9) The ability to analyze logical possibilities and to engage in meta cognition and
experimental thinking is well established during
A. latency
B. adolescence (Your Answer)
C. higher education
D. post graduate education
Q.10) Connie has a strong interest in making a social contribution. She uses her
creativity and productivity to develop a sense of meaning and social participation
in the community. Connie has a positive sense of -----------------------------.
A. intimacy (
B. generativity (Correct Answer)
C. self esteem
D. integrity
Q.12) Your long term psychotherapy client has a lifelong pattern of dependency,
narcissism and envy. You can best interpret the developmental origins of this
personality pattern of understanding which state of development?
Q.18) The object concept develops during the developmental stage of.....
A. school phobia
B. separation anxiety (
C. either school phobia or separation anxiety (Correct Answer)
D. normal behavior for an eight year old child
Q.23) When a child is given two balls of playdough the same size, he hammers one
into elongated shape, asserting that the elongated shape has more play dough
in it than the original. Piaget would place this child in which stage.
A. Formal Operations
B. Preoperational Operations (Your Answer)
C. Sensorimotor
D. Concrete Operational
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A. infancy
B. toddlerhood (Your Answer)
C. preschool or early elementary years (Correct Answer)
D. adolescence
Q.25) Your caseload includes client's in many different age ranges. According to
Erikson's developemental framework the conflict between identity versus role
confusion can casue problems for which of your client.
Q.26) Your client is anxious 30 year old man who has serious conflicts in relation to
competition, winning and losing, In analyzing your client's conflict you should
pay special attention to his development at about the age of:
A. infancy (
B. age 2
C. age 5 (Correct Answer)
D. adolescence
Q.32) You are working with a 30 year old graduate student in crisis following rejection
by a boyfriend. If you were assesing the effectiveness of this client's problems
solving mechanisms you should consider all of the following to be effective
problems solving mechanism except..
Q.45) Your are working with a depressed and anxious 16 year old adolescent . In
assessing your client's developing sense of identity , your should determine
A. how well the client recognizes his common personhood with people of other cultures and
generations
B. whether or not the client is able to derive a sense of self- esteem caring for others within
the extended family or larger community. (Your Answer)
C. how well the client is adapting to social demands to begin making adult role choices.
(Correct Answer)
D. whether or not the client has a sense of time perceptive, a sense that their will be a future
that he will be here in the future.
Erikson characterizes development as a series of what?
A. A.
psychosexual stages
B. B.
sociophallic stages
C. C.
psychosocial stages (Correct Answer)
D. D.
psychomoral stages
A. A.
trust vs. mistrust
B. B. ) autonomy vs. shame and doubt
(Your Answer
C. C.
generativity vs. stagnation
D. D.
intimacy vs. isolation
A. A.
identity vs. role confusion
(Correct Answer)
B. B.
autonomy vs. shame and doubt (
C. C.
trust vs. mistrust
D. D.
industry vs. inferiority
Q.4) During the _________________ stage, one's ability to cope with demands
is challenged and either competence or inferiority are the outcomes.
A. A.
Infancy
B. B.
Early childhood (
C. C.
Pre-School
D. D.
School Age
(Correct Answer)
Q.5) Which of these is NOT one of the "life stage virtues" of development
according to Erik Erikson?
A. A.
Hope
B. B.
Love (Your Answer)
C. C.
Honesty (Correct Answer)
D. D.
Wisdom
Q.6) _________ vs. __________ is the conflict faced during middle adulthood.
A. A.
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
B. B.
Identity vs. Role Confusion
C. C.
Integrity vs. Despair
D. D.
Generativity vs. Stagnation (Correct Answer)
The nurse teaches parents how to help their children learn impulse control and cooperative
behaviors. This would occur during which of the stages of development defined by Erikson?
Q.2) The nurse who volunteers at a senior citizens center is planning activities for the
members who attend the center. Which activity would best promote health and
maintenance for these senior citizens?
Q.5) A 10-year-old fifth-grader enjoys having his artwork displayed on the family
refrigerator. This behavior is indicative of which developmental stage as
described by Erikson?
A. Growth occurs at the same rates for individuals in the same stage
B. Development starts with complex tasks and progresses to simple tasks. (
C. Individuals have unique patterns of growth and development that are difficult to predict.
D. Success in one phase of growth and development affects the ability to complete later
phases successfully.
(Correct Answer)
Explanation
Repeated developmental failures can result in deficiencies in subsequent stages. The nurse should be
alert to these developmental stages. Patterns of growth and development are predictable. The rate
varies, but the pattern does not. Development progresses from simple to complex. Growth occurs at
different rates in different individuals in the same developmental stage.
A. Sensorimotor
B. Pre-Operational
C. Formal Operations (Correct Answer)
D. Concrete Operations
Explanation
During the formal operations stage of development, the individual's thinking moves from abstract to
theoretical subjects. During the concrete operations stage, children achieve the ability to perform
mental operations. During the sensorimotor stage, infants develop the schemas or action patterns for
dealing with the environment. During the pre-operational stage, children learn to think using symbols
and mental images.
Q.24) A 47-year-old woman expresses dismay to the nurse that her young adult
children are unemployed. Her husband is working and near retirement. She is
not working and feels bored with her life and unneeded. She is experiencing
which of Erikson's stages of development?
Q.32) Which of the following is the developmental theorist who believed his research
describes a sequential process that occurs through interactions between the
internal life (personality) of adults and their outer world (culture, lifestyle)?
A. Freud (
B. Gould (Correct Answer)
C. Thomas
D. Erikson
Explanation
The development themes identified by Gould start when individuals are in their twenties and are
seeking to get away from their parents. Gould believed his research describes a sequential process that
occurs through interactions between the internal life (personality) of adults and their outer world
(culture, lifestyle). Erikson focused on psychosocial development, Freud on psycho-sexual
development, and Thomas on temperament.
Q.36) During which stage of moral developmental identified by Kohlberg is the
individual's moral reasoning based on personal gain?
A. Anal
B. Genital (Your Answer)
C. Latency
D. Phallic or oedipal
Explanation
The genital stage is the final stage of psychosexual development and is a time of turbulence during
which earlier sexual urges reawaken and are directed to an individual outside the family. The anal stage
is the second stage in which the focus of pleasure changes to the anal zone. The phallic or oedipal stage
is the third stage in which the genital organs become the focus of pleasure. The latency stage is the
fourth stage during which sexual urges are repressed and channeled into productive activities that are
socially acceptable.