Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Konrad Lorenz found that goslings followed the first moving object they saw after hatching. This is called:

1. AAssimilation
2. BScaffolding
3. CHabituation
4. DImprinting

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

1. AMonotropy
2. BScaffolding
3. CImprinting
4. DTemperament

Parents who show little warmth and make few demands, and are largely disengaged from their child, show which style?

1. APermissive (indulgent)
2. BUninvolved (neglectful)
3. CAuthoritative
4. DAuthoritarian (strict)

An infant in the Strange Situation approaches the parent with the head turned away, then freezes. Contradictory behaviour like this indicates which attachment type?

1. AInsecure-resistant
2. BDisorganised
3. CSecure
4. DInsecure-avoidant

According to Piaget, assimilation means:

1. AFitting new information into an existing schema
2. BForgetting an old schema
3. CCopying the behaviour of a model
4. DChanging an existing schema to fit new information

In Kohlberg's theory, a person who judges right and wrong mainly by avoiding punishment is at which level?

1. APost-conventional
2. BFormal operational
3. CConventional
4. DPre-conventional

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. CBetter problem solving than monkeys that had been reared by real mothers
4. DAbnormal social behaviour and difficulty caring for their own young

Ainsworth's sensitivity hypothesis proposes that secure attachment results mainly from:

1. AThe caregiver responding promptly and appropriately to the infant's signals
2. BThe infant's genetic temperament only
3. CStrict feeding schedules
4. DThe amount of time the infant spends with any adult