Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Harlow's monkey experiments showed that infant monkeys preferred:

1. ABeing alone to having any mother
2. BA wire mother with food over a cloth mother without any food
3. COther infant monkeys only
4. DA soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food

A child says "I goed to the park" and "two mouses". This error is called:

1. ABabbling
2. BOverregularisation
3. CUnderextension
4. DTelegraphic speech

Who introduced the "zone of proximal development"?

1. AJean Piaget
2. BLawrence Kohlberg
3. CJohn Bowlby
4. DLev Vygotsky

Scaffolding refers to:

1. ALetting children discover everything alone
2. BBuilding one fixed curriculum that every child must follow in order
3. CSupport given to a learner that is reduced as competence grows
4. DPunishing errors so they are not repeated

According to Piaget, assimilation means:

1. ACopying the behaviour of a model
2. BChanging an existing schema to fit new information
3. CForgetting an old schema
4. DFitting new information into an existing schema

A girl pays close attention to information about "girls' toys" and quickly forgets details about "boys' toys". Which theory best explains this?

1. AAttachment theory
2. BPsychoanalytic theory
3. CGender schema theory
4. DEcological systems theory

Which finding challenges the idea that attachment forms only with the mother?

1. AHarlow's monkeys preferred wire mothers
2. BBowlby found no effect of separation
3. CInfants only attach to the person who feeds them
4. DSchaffer and Emerson found many infants form multiple attachments, including to fathers

Genie was isolated and given almost no language input until she was found at age 13. Later she learned many words but never mastered grammar. This case is often used to support:

1. AThe idea that age has no effect on language learning
2. BThe idea that language is learned only through reinforcement
3. CThe claim that grammar is learned faster than vocabulary
4. DA critical or sensitive period for language acquisition