Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

A preoperational child says the sun is following her because it wants to play. This is an example of:

1. AAnimism
2. BSeriation
3. CConservation
4. DReversibility

A child focuses only on the height of the liquid in a glass and ignores its width. Piaget called this:

1. AAccommodation
2. BObject permanence
3. CCentration
4. DAnimism

Conservation is the understanding that:

1. AObjects exist when out of sight
2. BOther people have beliefs
3. CQuantity stays the same when its appearance changes
4. DRules of a game can be changed if all the players agree

A 9-year-old can arrange sticks from shortest to longest quickly and without errors. This ability is called:

1. ASeriation
2. BAnimism
3. CAccommodation
4. DConservation

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. CExosystem
4. DMicrosystem

A study finds that the heritability of height in a population is about 0.8. What does this mean?

1. AHeight in that group cannot be changed by the environment
2. B80% of each person's own height is caused by their genes
3. C80% of height differences in that group are linked to genes
4. D80% of people in that group inherit height from their mother

Hodges and Tizard followed children raised in institutions until after age 2, some later adopted and some returned to their birth families. At age 16, a common finding across both groups was:

1. AComplete failure to form any family attachments
2. BNo differences at all from family-reared children
3. CExceptionally high academic achievement
4. DDifficulties in peer relationships

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

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