Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Bowlby's idea that infants form one special primary attachment, usually to the mother, is called:

1. AImprinting
2. BTemperament
3. CMonotropy
4. DScaffolding

A girl's first menstrual period is called:

1. AMenopause
2. BSpermarche
3. CMenarche
4. DAdrenarche

Noam Chomsky proposed that children have an innate "language acquisition device". This view emphasises:

1. AImitation as the only source of grammar
2. BBiological readiness to learn language
3. CLanguage as a product of formal schooling
4. DLearning language only through reinforcement

Baillargeon found that young infants looked longer at "impossible" events, such as a screen rotating through a box behind it. This suggests infants:

1. AHave no memory for events that they cannot see
2. BPrefer moving screens to objects that stay still
3. CKnow hidden objects still exist earlier than Piaget thought
4. DCannot perceive objects at all once they move behind screens

A researcher tests 5-, 10- and 15-year-olds now and then retests the same groups every two years. This design is called:

1. ALongitudinal only
2. BCross-sectional
3. CCross-sequential
4. DCase study

Older adults often prefer spending time with a few close friends rather than meeting new people. Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory explains this as:

1. AFocusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
2. BA gradual loss of social skills that tends to come with increasing age
3. CA decline in crystallised intelligence and memory
4. DFear of strangers that grows steadily in later life

Harlow's monkeys raised in isolation with only surrogate mothers later showed which outcome?

1. AStrong attachment to the wire mother as adults
2. BCompletely normal adult social behaviour
3. CAbnormal social behaviour and difficulty caring for their own young
4. DBetter problem solving than monkeys that had been reared by real mothers

A longitudinal design is preferred over a cross-sectional design when a researcher wants to:

1. ATrack how the same individuals change over time
2. BAvoid any participant drop-out
3. CGet results as quickly as possible
4. DCompare different age groups at a single time point