Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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

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

Conservation is the understanding that:

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

According to Erikson, the main conflict of adolescence is:

1. AIntimacy versus isolation
2. BIntegrity versus despair
3. CIdentity versus role confusion
4. DTrust versus mistrust

An 18-year-old becomes a dentist like her parents expected, without ever considering other options. In Marcia's model, her identity status is:

1. AForeclosure
2. BIdentity achievement
3. CMoratorium
4. DIdentity diffusion

A toddler watches another child have a tantrum and copies it the next day. Piaget saw this deferred imitation as evidence of:

1. AMoral realism
2. BFormal operational thought
3. CMental representation
4. DConservation

Fantz showed infants pairs of patterns and measured how long they looked at each. Many young infants looked longest at:

1. AFace-like patterns
2. BPlain coloured discs
3. CPrinted text
4. DBlank grey cards

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. CDifficulties in peer relationships
4. DExceptionally high academic achievement

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

1. AEasy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up
2. BSecure, avoidant and resistant
3. CAuthoritative, authoritarian and permissive
4. DIntroverted, extroverted and ambiverted