Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

In Piaget's theory, which stage comes first?

1. ASensorimotor
2. BPreoperational
3. CConcrete operational
4. DFormal operational

A teenager feels that everyone at school will notice a small spot on her face. Elkind called this belief the:

1. AImaginary audience
2. BMoral realism
3. CIdentity crisis
4. DPersonal fable

Harlow's monkey experiments showed that infant monkeys preferred:

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

Which attachment type is shown by an infant who is very distressed at separation and both seeks and resists contact at reunion?

1. ASecure
2. BDisorganised only
3. CInsecure-avoidant
4. DInsecure-resistant (ambivalent)

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

1. AConservation
2. BDelay of gratification
3. CAttachment security
4. DObject permanence

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. BCannot perceive objects at all once they move behind screens
3. CKnow hidden objects still exist earlier than Piaget thought
4. DHave no memory for events that they cannot see

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

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

Dodge found that aggressive children are more likely to think a peer who bumped into them did it on purpose, even when the situation was ambiguous. This is called:

1. AImaginary audience bias
2. BThe personal fable
3. CSelf-serving bias
4. DHostile attribution bias