Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Conservation is the understanding that:

1. AQuantity stays the same when its appearance changes
2. BRules of a game can be changed if all the players agree
3. CObjects exist when out of sight
4. DOther people have beliefs

Understanding that an action can be mentally undone, such as pouring water back into the first glass, is called:

1. AReversibility
2. BAnimism
3. CCentration
4. DEgocentrism

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

1. AHabituation
2. BImprinting
3. CAssimilation
4. DScaffolding

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

1. ADelay of gratification
2. BAttachment security
3. CObject permanence
4. DConservation

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

1. AIdentity achievement
2. BMoratorium
3. CForeclosure
4. DIdentity diffusion

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. CGender schema theory
4. DEcological systems theory

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

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

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. BHostile attribution bias
3. CThe personal fable
4. DSelf-serving bias