Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

A teenager feels that everyone at school will notice a small spot on her face. Elkind called this belief the:

1. AMoral realism
2. BPersonal fable
3. CIdentity crisis
4. DImaginary audience

A child focuses only on the height of the liquid in a glass and ignores its width. Piaget called this:

1. AAccommodation
2. BAnimism
3. CObject permanence
4. DCentration

In Piaget's theory, which stage comes first?

1. ASensorimotor
2. BConcrete operational
3. CPreoperational
4. DFormal operational

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

1. AForeclosure
2. BHostile attribution bias
3. CImaginary audience
4. DPersonal fable

A girl pays close attention to information about "girls' toys" and quickly forgets details about "boys' toys". Which theory best explains this?

1. AAttachment theory
2. BPsychoanalytic theory
3. CEcological systems theory
4. DGender schema theory

Fantz showed infants pairs of patterns and measured how long they looked at each. Many young infants looked longest at:

1. ABlank grey cards
2. BPrinted text
3. CPlain coloured discs
4. DFace-like patterns

Dodge found that aggressive children are more likely to think a peer who bumped into them did it on purpose, even when the situation was ambiguous. This is called:

1. AThe personal fable
2. BImaginary audience bias
3. CHostile attribution bias
4. DSelf-serving bias

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

1. AAuthoritative, authoritarian and permissive
2. BSecure, avoidant and resistant
3. CIntroverted, extroverted and ambiverted
4. DEasy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up