Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Knowledge and vocabulary built up over a lifetime, which tend to stay stable or grow with age, are called:

1. AProcessing speed
2. BFluid intelligence
3. CCrystallised intelligence
4. DEmotional intelligence

Gibson and Walk's "visual cliff" was designed to study infants':

1. ALanguage comprehension
2. BColour vision
3. CAttachment style
4. DDepth perception

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

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

Which concept refers to a period when a child is especially sensitive to certain experiences?

1. AObject permanence
2. BHabituation
3. CAccommodation
4. DCritical (sensitive) period

Baumrind's authoritative parenting style combines:

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

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

1. AConservation
2. BAttachment security
3. CObject permanence
4. DDelay of gratification

Japanese infants in early Strange Situation studies showed high rates of resistant attachment and very little avoidance. One common explanation is that:

1. AJapanese infants are genetically more anxious than infants elsewhere
2. BJapanese fathers did most of the caregiving in these families
3. CThey were rarely separated from mothers, so the test was unusually stressful
4. DJapanese mothers in these samples were usually insensitive towards their infants

In an adoption study, adopted children's IQ scores correlate more with their biological parents' scores than with their adoptive parents' scores. This suggests:

1. AThat IQ is fixed at birth
2. BGenetic influence on individual differences in IQ
3. CThat adoptive parents give poor care
4. DThat the family environment has no effect at all on IQ