Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Konrad Lorenz found that goslings followed the first moving object they saw after hatching. This is called:

1. AImprinting
2. BHabituation
3. CScaffolding
4. DAssimilation

Two toddlers play with blocks side by side but do not interact with each other. Parten called this:

1. AAssociative play
2. BCooperative play
3. CParallel play
4. DSolitary play

Which researcher used the "Strange Situation" to classify attachment types?

1. AErik Erikson
2. BLev Vygotsky
3. CHarry Harlow
4. DMary Ainsworth

A parent's stressful workplace affects a child's home life, although the child never goes there. In Bronfenbrenner's theory, the workplace is part of the child's:

1. AChronosystem
2. BMicrosystem
3. CMesosystem
4. DExosystem

Habituation in infant research is used to show that babies:

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

Bowlby's "44 thieves" study linked early prolonged separation from the mother to:

1. AAffectionless psychopathy
2. BHigher intelligence scores
3. CEarly language development
4. DAdvanced moral reasoning

Main's Adult Attachment Interview found that parents who describe their own childhood in a coherent, balanced way tend to have infants who:

1. AShow no attachment at all
2. BAre securely attached in the Strange Situation
3. CDevelop formal operational thought earlier
4. DAre always insecure-avoidant

The concept of "internal working model" in attachment theory refers to:

1. AA computer model of child development
2. BA plan made by parents for their child's education
3. CA mental representation of relationships based on early attachment experiences
4. DThe infant's memory for faces only