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. APersonal fable
2. BMoral realism
3. CImaginary audience
4. DIdentity crisis

Who developed attachment theory?

1. AJean Piaget
2. BAlbert Bandura
3. CJohn Bowlby
4. DB. F. Skinner

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. CAssociative play
4. DCooperative play

In Mischel's "marshmallow test", children could eat one treat now or wait to get two. The task measures:

1. ADelay of gratification
2. BConservation
3. CAttachment security
4. DObject permanence

A parent's stressful workplace affects a child's home life, although the child never goes there. In Bronfenbrenner's theory, the workplace is part of the child's:

1. AMesosystem
2. BChronosystem
3. CMicrosystem
4. DExosystem

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

1. APrinted text
2. BPlain coloured discs
3. CBlank grey cards
4. DFace-like patterns

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. BChildren did worse than in Piaget's version, so he overestimated them
3. CChildren did better, suggesting the two-question format misled them
4. DNo child could conserve before age 11 in either version of the task

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. AImaginary audience bias
2. BThe personal fable
3. CHostile attribution bias
4. DSelf-serving bias