Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AScaffolding
2. BImprinting
3. CHabituation
4. DAssimilation

The "rouge test", in which a mark is placed on a child's nose before they look in a mirror, measures:

1. AObject permanence
2. BVisual self-recognition
3. CUnderstanding false beliefs
4. DDepth perception

Comparing identical and fraternal twins is mainly used to study:

1. AWhy some children start babbling earlier
2. BHow memory develops during the first year of life
3. CWhether Piaget's stages occur in a fixed order
4. DThe relative influence of genes and environment

Which ability is most likely to decline from early adulthood onwards?

1. AGeneral knowledge about the world
2. BExpertise in one's own profession
3. CSpeed in solving new, unfamiliar problems
4. DKnowledge of word meanings

Older adults often prefer spending time with a few close friends rather than meeting new people. Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory explains this as:

1. AFear of strangers that grows steadily in later life
2. BA decline in crystallised intelligence and memory
3. CFocusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
4. DA gradual loss of social skills that tends to come with increasing age

A 5-year-old says a boy who broke 15 cups by accident is naughtier than a boy who broke 1 cup while stealing jam. Piaget called this:

1. APost-conventional moral reasoning
2. BFormal operational moral thought
3. CHeteronomous morality (moral realism)
4. DAutonomous morality (moral relativism)

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

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

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

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