Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

A teratogen is:

1. AAn outside agent that can harm prenatal development
2. BA hormone released by the placenta to start labour
3. CA gene that controls the timing of puberty in teens
4. DA reflex that is present in newborn babies only

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

1. AConservation
2. BReversibility
3. CSeriation
4. DAnimism

Who developed attachment theory?

1. AJean Piaget
2. BAlbert Bandura
3. CJohn Bowlby
4. DB. F. Skinner

Bandura's Bobo doll study demonstrated:

1. AAggression is purely genetic
2. BChildren only imitate other children
3. CChildren learn aggressive behaviour by observing adults
4. DPunishment of a model always reduces children's aggression

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

1. AHostile attribution bias
2. BForeclosure
3. CPersonal fable
4. DImaginary audience

Which attachment type is shown by an infant who is very distressed at separation and both seeks and resists contact at reunion?

1. AInsecure-avoidant
2. BDisorganised only
3. CSecure
4. DInsecure-resistant (ambivalent)

Adults rarely remember events from before the age of about 3. Which explanation is commonly given for this infantile amnesia?

1. AYoung children experience no events worth remembering
2. BInfants have no ability to learn
3. CMemories from infancy are all repressed because they are deeply traumatic
4. DImmature brain systems and limited language and self-concept at encoding

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

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