Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Object permanence is the understanding that:

1. AThe amount of liquid stays the same in a different glass
2. BObjects can be sorted by size
3. COther people have different thoughts
4. DObjects continue to exist when they cannot be seen

A toddler says "Daddy go car" and "want milk". This stage of language is called:

1. ATelegraphic speech
2. BOverregularisation
3. CBabbling
4. DCooing

A child says "I goed to the park" and "two mouses". This error is called:

1. ATelegraphic speech
2. BOverregularisation
3. CBabbling
4. DUnderextension

Bandura's Bobo doll study demonstrated:

1. AChildren only imitate other children
2. BChildren learn aggressive behaviour by observing adults
3. CPunishment of a model always reduces children's aggression
4. DAggression is purely genetic

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. BFocusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
3. CFear of strangers that grows steadily in later life
4. DA gradual loss of social skills that tends to come with increasing age

A teenager drives dangerously, believing "accidents happen to other people, not to me". Elkind called this belief the:

1. AHostile attribution bias
2. BPersonal fable
3. CImaginary audience
4. DForeclosure

Samuel and Bryant asked children about conservation only once, after the transformation, instead of before and after. Their results showed that:

1. AThe number of questions asked made no difference to the results
2. BNo child could conserve before age 11 in either version of the task
3. CChildren did worse than in Piaget's version, so he overestimated them
4. DChildren did better, suggesting the two-question format misled them

Hodges and Tizard followed children raised in institutions until after age 2, some later adopted and some returned to their birth families. At age 16, a common finding across both groups was:

1. AComplete failure to form any family attachments
2. BNo differences at all from family-reared children
3. CExceptionally high academic achievement
4. DDifficulties in peer relationships