Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Two toddlers play with blocks side by side but do not interact with each other. Parten called this:

  1. AAssociative play
  2. BParallel play
  3. CCooperative play
  4. DSolitary play
2.Easy

Which researcher used the "Strange Situation" to classify attachment types?

  1. ALev Vygotsky
  2. BHarry Harlow
  3. CErik Erikson
  4. DMary Ainsworth
3.Easy

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

  1. AOverregularisation
  2. BCooing
  3. CTelegraphic speech
  4. DBabbling
4.Medium

A researcher tests 5-, 10- and 15-year-olds now and then retests the same groups every two years. This design is called:

  1. ACross-sequential
  2. BCase study
  3. CCross-sectional
  4. DLongitudinal only
5.Medium

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

  1. APersonal fable
  2. BForeclosure
  3. CImaginary audience
  4. DHostile attribution bias
6.Medium

Asked about the Heinz dilemma, a teenager says "Heinz should steal the drug because a good husband would do that for his wife". This reasoning is at Kohlberg's:

  1. AConventional level
  2. BSensorimotor level
  3. CPost-conventional level
  4. DPre-conventional level
7.Hard

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

  1. AAuthoritative, authoritarian and permissive
  2. BEasy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up
  3. CSecure, avoidant and resistant
  4. DIntroverted, extroverted and ambiverted
8.Hard

For a trait, identical twins correlate 0.8 and fraternal twins correlate 0.5. Using Falconer's formula, the rough heritability estimate is:

  1. A0.3
  2. B0.8
  3. C0.6
  4. D0.4

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Parallel play
  2. 2. D · Mary Ainsworth
  3. 3. C · Telegraphic speech
  4. 4. A · Cross-sequential
  5. 5. A · Personal fable
  6. 6. A · Conventional level
  7. 7. B · Easy, difficult and slow-to-warm-up
  8. 8. C · 0.6

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