Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Repetitive syllables such as "ba-ba-ba" in an infant's vocalisations are called:

  1. ACooing
  2. BTelegraphic speech
  3. CBabbling
  4. DHolophrases
2.Easy

A newborn turns its head towards a touch on the cheek and opens its mouth. This is the:

  1. ARooting reflex
  2. BGrasping reflex
  3. CMoro reflex
  4. DBabinski reflex
3.Easy

Differences between age groups that are caused by growing up in different historical times are called:

  1. ACohort effects
  2. BOrder effects
  3. CCeiling effects
  4. DPractice effects
4.Medium

Baillargeon found that young infants looked longer at "impossible" events, such as a screen rotating through a box behind it. This suggests infants:

  1. APrefer moving screens to objects that stay still
  2. BKnow hidden objects still exist earlier than Piaget thought
  3. CHave no memory for events that they cannot see
  4. DCannot perceive objects at all once they move behind screens
5.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. AFormal operational moral thought
  2. BHeteronomous morality (moral realism)
  3. CPost-conventional moral reasoning
  4. DAutonomous morality (moral relativism)
6.Medium

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

  1. A80% of each person's own height is caused by their genes
  2. B80% of people in that group inherit height from their mother
  3. C80% of height differences in that group are linked to genes
  4. DHeight in that group cannot be changed by the environment
7.Hard

Adolescents take more risks in a driving game when friends are watching, but adults are less affected. Steinberg explains this mainly by:

  1. AReward systems maturing earlier than prefrontal self-control
  2. BAdults being less aware of risks than adolescents are
  3. CAdolescents being unable to understand the rules of the driving game
  4. DAdolescents having faster reaction times than adults do
8.Hard

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. AExceptionally high academic achievement
  2. BNo differences at all from family-reared children
  3. CDifficulties in peer relationships
  4. DComplete failure to form any family attachments

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Babbling
  2. 2. A · Rooting reflex
  3. 3. A · Cohort effects
  4. 4. B · Know hidden objects still exist earlier than Piaget thought
  5. 5. B · Heteronomous morality (moral realism)
  6. 6. C · 80% of height differences in that group are linked to genes
  7. 7. A · Reward systems maturing earlier than prefrontal self-control
  8. 8. C · Difficulties in peer relationships

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