3.1.3.2.5 Hughes' policeman doll study Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 3

The 20 questions

1. What did Hughes' policeman doll study demonstrate about young children's cognitive abilities?

   • Reduced egocentrism
   • Innate morality
   • Lack of conservation
   • Complete egocentrism

2. What task were children asked to perform in Hughes' policeman doll study?

   • Hide a doll
   • Build a tower
   • Count the dolls
   • Sort coloured shapes

3. Why was Hughes' policeman doll task easier for young children than Piaget's three mountains task?

   • Longer testing time
   • More meaningful context
   • Fewer visual cues
   • Use of rewards

4. What did Hughes conclude about Piaget's estimate of the age children lose egocentrism?

   • Piaget underestimated children
   • Egocentrism is lifelong
   • Piaget overestimated children
   • Piaget was accurate

5. What was the age range of the children tested in Hughes' policeman doll study?

   • 12 to 15 years
   • 7 to 11 years
   • 1 to 2 years
   • 3.5 to 5 years

6. What did a child's success in Hughes' policeman doll study demonstrate?

   • Perspective-taking ability
   • Moral reasoning
   • Object permanence
   • Conservation of volume

7. Which cognitive concept was Hughes' policeman doll study designed to test?

   • Attachment
   • Schema formation
   • Operant conditioning
   • Egocentrism

8. What did Hughes conclude about perspective-taking compared to Piaget's findings?

   • It develops earlier
   • It never develops
   • It develops later
   • Piaget was correct

9. According to Hughes, what heavily influences a child's success on a task?

   • Task presentation
   • Time of day
   • Parental presence
   • Child's gender

10. What made the policeman doll study easier for children than Piaget's three mountains task?

    • Unfamiliar objects
    • Meaningful context
    • Complex instructions
    • Abstract layout

11. Why did children perform better in Hughes' policeman doll task than Piaget's mountains?

    • Made human sense
    • Brighter colours
    • Simpler vocabulary
    • Praise given

12. What ability is shown when a child successfully hides the doll from the policeman?

    • Conservation of mass
    • Visual perspective-taking
    • Deferred imitation
    • Abstract reasoning

13. What did Hughes' study suggest about egocentrism in pre-operational children?

    • It is permanent
    • It is universal
    • It is task-dependent
    • It is untestable

14. What percentage of children aged 3.5 to 5 correctly hid the doll in Hughes' study?

    • 30 percent
    • 90 percent
    • 50 percent
    • 10 percent

15. How could a researcher check the reliability of Hughes' policeman doll study findings?

    • Change the topic
    • Replicate the study
    • Use animal subjects
    • Interview parents only

16. Why did Hughes criticise Piaget's three mountains task as a measure of egocentrism?

    • Too abstract
    • Too realistic
    • Too quick
    • Too simple

17. What main characters were used in Hughes' policeman doll perspective-taking study?

    • Teachers and pupils
    • Cats and dogs
    • Mothers and babies
    • Policemen and boy

18. What was the main finding of Hughes' policeman doll study?

    • Random guessing
    • High success rate
    • Total task failure
    • No age differences

19. Why did Hughes include multiple age groups in his policeman doll study?

    • To compare genders
    • To track development
    • To test obedience
    • To check memory

20. What did Hughes' policeman doll study challenge about pre-operational children?

    • Their object permanence
    • Their conservation
    • Their fixed schema
    • Their egocentrism

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