Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

A girl's first menstrual period is called:

1. ASpermarche
2. BAdrenarche
3. CMenarche
4. DMenopause

A teratogen is:

1. AA reflex that is present in newborn babies only
2. BAn outside agent that can harm prenatal development
3. CA hormone released by the placenta to start labour
4. DA gene that controls the timing of puberty in teens

According to Erikson, the main conflict of infancy is:

1. AIndustry versus inferiority
2. BAutonomy versus shame and doubt
3. CInitiative versus guilt
4. DTrust versus mistrust

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

1. AImaginary audience
2. BPersonal fable
3. CForeclosure
4. DHostile attribution bias

Baillargeon found that young infants looked longer at "impossible" events, such as a screen rotating through a box behind it. This suggests infants:

1. AHave no memory for events that they cannot see
2. BCannot perceive objects at all once they move behind screens
3. CKnow hidden objects still exist earlier than Piaget thought
4. DPrefer moving screens to objects that stay still

A 5-year-old says a boy who broke 15 cups by accident is naughtier than a boy who broke 1 cup while stealing jam. Piaget called this:

1. AHeteronomous morality (moral realism)
2. BAutonomous morality (moral relativism)
3. CPost-conventional moral reasoning
4. DFormal operational moral thought

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

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

In a Bobo doll variation, children who saw a model punished imitated less aggression, but when all children were offered rewards to copy the model, the differences disappeared. This shows:

1. AThat children learn only through direct reinforcement of their own actions
2. BA difference between learning a behaviour and performing it
3. CThat punishment prevents any learning
4. DThat aggression is entirely innate