Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Conservation is the understanding that:

  1. ARules of a game can be changed if all the players agree
  2. BOther people have beliefs
  3. CQuantity stays the same when its appearance changes
  4. DObjects exist when out of sight
2.Easy

Wariness or fear when an unfamiliar person approaches, typically appearing in the second half of the first year, is called:

  1. AStranger anxiety
  2. BSeparation anxiety
  3. CImprinting
  4. DSocial referencing
3.Easy

According to Erikson, the main challenge of young adulthood is:

  1. AIntimacy versus isolation
  2. BGenerativity versus stagnation
  3. CIdentity versus role confusion
  4. DIntegrity versus despair
4.Medium

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. BFormal operational moral thought
  3. CAutonomous morality (moral relativism)
  4. DPost-conventional moral reasoning
5.Medium

Older adults often prefer spending time with a few close friends rather than meeting new people. Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory explains this as:

  1. AA gradual loss of social skills that tends to come with increasing age
  2. BA decline in crystallised intelligence and memory
  3. CFear of strangers that grows steadily in later life
  4. DFocusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
6.Medium

Habituation in infant research is used to show that babies:

  1. APrefer their own reflection
  2. BAre born with full adult vision
  3. CCan tell two stimuli apart because interest returns when the stimulus changes
  4. DBecome drowsy and sleep more when the same stimulus is presented over and over again
7.Hard

In Vygotsky's theory, private speech in young children is seen as:

  1. AA symptom of a language delay
  2. BA tool for guiding their own thinking that later becomes inner speech
  3. CSpeech mainly intended to communicate information to other people nearby
  4. DA sign of egocentrism with no function
8.Hard

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. ASelf-serving bias
  2. BHostile attribution bias
  3. CThe personal fable
  4. DImaginary audience bias

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Quantity stays the same when its appearance changes
  2. 2. A · Stranger anxiety
  3. 3. A · Intimacy versus isolation
  4. 4. A · Heteronomous morality (moral realism)
  5. 5. D · Focusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
  6. 6. C · Can tell two stimuli apart because interest returns when the stimulus changes
  7. 7. B · A tool for guiding their own thinking that later becomes inner speech
  8. 8. B · Hostile attribution bias

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