Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Who developed attachment theory?

1. AJean Piaget
2. BJohn Bowlby
3. CB. F. Skinner
4. DAlbert Bandura

Object permanence is the understanding that:

1. AObjects continue to exist when they cannot be seen
2. BOther people have different thoughts
3. CThe amount of liquid stays the same in a different glass
4. DObjects can be sorted by size

A child who called every four-legged animal "dog" learns that cats are different and forms a new category. In Piaget's terms, this is:

1. AConservation
2. BAccommodation
3. CEgocentrism
4. DAssimilation

An 18-year-old becomes a dentist like her parents expected, without ever considering other options. In Marcia's model, her identity status is:

1. AForeclosure
2. BIdentity diffusion
3. CIdentity achievement
4. DMoratorium

Young infants in English-speaking homes can tell apart some Hindi speech sounds that English-speaking adults cannot, but most lose this ability by about the end of the first year. This is called:

1. AHabituation
2. BFast mapping
3. COverregularisation
4. DPerceptual narrowing

Asked about the Heinz dilemma, a teenager says "Heinz should steal the drug because a good husband would do that for his wife". This reasoning is at Kohlberg's:

1. APre-conventional level
2. BSensorimotor level
3. CConventional level
4. DPost-conventional level

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

1. AAre always insecure-avoidant
2. BShow no attachment at all
3. CAre securely attached in the Strange Situation
4. DDevelop formal operational thought earlier

Hodges and Tizard followed children raised in institutions until after age 2, some later adopted and some returned to their birth families. At age 16, a common finding across both groups was:

1. AComplete failure to form any family attachments
2. BExceptionally high academic achievement
3. CNo differences at all from family-reared children
4. DDifficulties in peer relationships