Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

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

  1. AAnimism
  2. BReversibility
  3. CCentration
  4. DEgocentrism
2.Easy

Gibson and Walk's "visual cliff" was designed to study infants':

  1. ADepth perception
  2. BAttachment style
  3. CColour vision
  4. DLanguage comprehension
3.Easy

A child says "I goed to the park" and "two mouses". This error is called:

  1. AUnderextension
  2. BBabbling
  3. COverregularisation
  4. DTelegraphic speech
4.Medium

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. AHeteronomous morality (moral realism)
  2. BAutonomous morality (moral relativism)
  3. CFormal operational moral thought
  4. DPost-conventional moral reasoning
5.Medium

An infant in the Strange Situation approaches the parent with the head turned away, then freezes. Contradictory behaviour like this indicates which attachment type?

  1. ASecure
  2. BDisorganised
  3. CInsecure-resistant
  4. DInsecure-avoidant
6.Medium

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. BMicrosystem
  3. CExosystem
  4. DChronosystem
7.Hard

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

  1. AAuthoritative, authoritarian and permissive
  2. BSecure, avoidant and resistant
  3. CEasy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up
  4. DIntroverted, extroverted and ambiverted
8.Hard

In Vygotsky's theory, private speech in young children is seen as:

  1. AA symptom of a language delay
  2. BSpeech mainly intended to communicate information to other people nearby
  3. CA tool for guiding their own thinking that later becomes inner speech
  4. DA sign of egocentrism with no function

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Reversibility
  2. 2. A · Depth perception
  3. 3. C · Overregularisation
  4. 4. A · Heteronomous morality (moral realism)
  5. 5. B · Disorganised
  6. 6. C · Exosystem
  7. 7. C · Easy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up
  8. 8. C · A tool for guiding their own thinking that later becomes inner speech

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