Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

A toddler says "Daddy go car" and "want milk". This stage of language is called:

1. AOverregularisation
2. BTelegraphic speech
3. CBabbling
4. DCooing

According to Erikson, the main conflict of adolescence is:

1. AIntimacy versus isolation
2. BIdentity versus role confusion
3. CIntegrity versus despair
4. DTrust versus mistrust

In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, a child's family, school and friends belong to the:

1. AMesosystem
2. BMacrosystem
3. CExosystem
4. DMicrosystem

Older adults often prefer spending time with a few close friends rather than meeting new people. Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory explains this as:

1. AFear of strangers that grows steadily in later life
2. BA decline in crystallised intelligence and memory
3. CA gradual loss of social skills that tends to come with increasing age
4. DFocusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter

Someone argues that Heinz should steal the drug because the right to life is more important than any property law. This reasoning is:

1. APost-conventional
2. BConventional
3. CPre-conventional
4. DHeteronomous

An infant in the Strange Situation approaches the parent with the head turned away, then freezes. Contradictory behaviour like this indicates which attachment type?

1. ADisorganised
2. BInsecure-avoidant
3. CInsecure-resistant
4. DSecure

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

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

On a visual cliff set to a moderate drop, most infants crossed when their mother smiled but few crossed when she showed fear. This shows:

1. ASocial referencing: using a caregiver's emotion to guide behaviour
2. BThat infants cannot perceive depth
3. CImprinting on the mother's face
4. DThat infants ignore their caregivers' facial expressions in new situations