Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. ADepth perception
2. BColour vision
3. CAttachment style
4. DLanguage comprehension

Harlow's monkey experiments showed that infant monkeys preferred:

1. AA soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food
2. BA wire mother with food over a cloth mother without any food
3. CBeing alone to having any mother
4. DOther infant monkeys only

At what age do most children say their first words?

1. AAround 3 months
2. BAround 5 years
3. CAround 30 months
4. DAround 12 months

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

1. AImaginary audience
2. BPersonal fable
3. CForeclosure
4. DHostile attribution bias

A parent sets strict rules, expects obedience without discussion and says "Because I said so". This style is:

1. AUninvolved
2. BPermissive
3. CAuthoritative
4. DAuthoritarian

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

1. AObject permanence
2. BDelay of gratification
3. CAttachment security
4. DConservation

The concept of "internal working model" in attachment theory refers to:

1. AA plan made by parents for their child's education
2. BThe infant's memory for faces only
3. CA mental representation of relationships based on early attachment experiences
4. DA computer model of child development

Parents who love reading pass on genes linked to verbal ability and also fill the house with books. This is which gene–environment correlation?

1. AEvocative
2. BPassive
3. CActive (niche-picking)
4. DGene–environment interaction