Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Who introduced the "zone of proximal development"?

1. AJean Piaget
2. BLev Vygotsky
3. CLawrence Kohlberg
4. DJohn Bowlby

Knowledge and vocabulary built up over a lifetime, which tend to stay stable or grow with age, are called:

1. AFluid intelligence
2. BEmotional intelligence
3. CProcessing speed
4. DCrystallised intelligence

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is caused by:

1. AAlcohol exposure before birth
2. BA single inherited gene
3. CToo little sleep during infancy
4. DDrinking alcohol in early childhood

A student is actively trying out different majors and values but has not committed to any yet. In Marcia's model, this is:

1. AMoratorium
2. BIdentity achievement
3. CIdentity diffusion
4. DForeclosure

Which statement about the formal operational stage is correct?

1. AChildren cannot yet use symbols
2. BThinking is limited to concrete objects that are physically in front of them
3. CAdolescents can reason about abstract and hypothetical problems
4. DChildren first develop object permanence

A 1-year-old says "up!" while raising her arms, meaning "Pick me up". A single word used to express a whole idea is called a:

1. AHolophrase
2. BMorpheme
3. CPhoneme
4. DTelegraphic sentence

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

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

In an adoption study, adopted children's IQ scores correlate more with their biological parents' scores than with their adoptive parents' scores. This suggests:

1. AThat adoptive parents give poor care
2. BThat the family environment has no effect at all on IQ
3. CThat IQ is fixed at birth
4. DGenetic influence on individual differences in IQ