Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Parents who are warm and affectionate but set few rules or demands show which style?

  1. AUninvolved
  2. BPermissive
  3. CAuthoritarian
  4. DAuthoritative
2.Easy

Two toddlers play with blocks side by side but do not interact with each other. Parten called this:

  1. ASolitary play
  2. BParallel play
  3. CCooperative play
  4. DAssociative play
3.Easy

A child understands that she will stay a girl even if she cuts her hair short or plays football. Kohlberg called this:

  1. AGender role
  2. BGender schema
  3. CGender constancy
  4. DGender typing
4.Medium

In Vygotsky's theory, an older sibling who helps a child learn to tie shoelaces is acting as:

  1. AA primary attachment figure
  2. BAn imaginary audience
  3. CA formal operational thinker
  4. DA more knowledgeable other
5.Medium

Baumrind's authoritative parenting style combines:

  1. ALow warmth and low involvement
  2. BHigh warmth with few rules or demands
  3. CHigh warmth with high, clearly explained expectations
  4. DLow warmth with strict rules and very little explanation
6.Medium

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

Hazan and Shaver's "love quiz" found that adults' romantic attachment styles:

  1. AMatched infant type proportions and related to recalled childhood care
  2. BChanged completely from one relationship to the next at random
  3. CWere completely unrelated to how people recalled their childhood
  4. DWere nearly all insecure-avoidant, unlike the proportions of infant types
8.Hard

Temperament research by Thomas and Chess classified infants into which three main groups?

  1. AEasy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up
  2. BIntroverted, extroverted and ambiverted
  3. CAuthoritative, authoritarian and permissive
  4. DSecure, avoidant and resistant

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Permissive
  2. 2. B · Parallel play
  3. 3. C · Gender constancy
  4. 4. D · A more knowledgeable other
  5. 5. C · High warmth with high, clearly explained expectations
  6. 6. C · Focusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
  7. 7. A · Matched infant type proportions and related to recalled childhood care
  8. 8. A · Easy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up

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