Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

A child focuses only on the height of the liquid in a glass and ignores its width. Piaget called this:

1. AObject permanence
2. BAccommodation
3. CCentration
4. DAnimism

Who introduced the "zone of proximal development"?

1. AJean Piaget
2. BLev Vygotsky
3. CJohn Bowlby
4. DLawrence Kohlberg

According to Erikson, the main conflict of infancy is:

1. AInitiative versus guilt
2. BIndustry versus inferiority
3. CTrust versus mistrust
4. DAutonomy versus shame and doubt

Baumrind's authoritative parenting style combines:

1. ALow warmth and low involvement
2. BLow warmth with strict rules and very little explanation
3. CHigh warmth with high, clearly explained expectations
4. DHigh warmth with few rules or demands

Fantz showed infants pairs of patterns and measured how long they looked at each. Many young infants looked longest at:

1. APrinted text
2. BBlank grey cards
3. CPlain coloured discs
4. DFace-like patterns

In Mischel's "marshmallow test", children could eat one treat now or wait to get two. The task measures:

1. AObject permanence
2. BDelay of gratification
3. CConservation
4. DAttachment security

Rovee-Collier tied a ribbon from a mobile to infants' ankles so that kicking moved it. Days later, infants kicked more on seeing the same mobile. This shows that young infants:

1. AOnly remember things they can name
2. BRemember only events that happened to others
3. CCannot form any long-term memories
4. DCan retain learned associations over days

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