Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Understanding that an action can be mentally undone, such as pouring water back into the first glass, is called:

1. AReversibility
2. BAnimism
3. CCentration
4. DEgocentrism

A teenager feels that everyone at school will notice a small spot on her face. Elkind called this belief the:

1. AIdentity crisis
2. BPersonal fable
3. CImaginary audience
4. DMoral realism

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

1. AErik Erikson
2. BHarry Harlow
3. CLev Vygotsky
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. AMesosystem
2. BMicrosystem
3. CExosystem
4. DChronosystem

Scaffolding refers to:

1. ABuilding one fixed curriculum that every child must follow in order
2. BSupport given to a learner that is reduced as competence grows
3. CLetting children discover everything alone
4. DPunishing errors so they are not repeated

Which feature is typical of infant-directed speech ("parentese")?

1. ALong sentences with complex grammar
2. BHigher pitch and exaggerated intonation
3. CFast speech with very few pauses
4. DA flat, quiet and monotonous tone

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

1. AJapanese fathers did most of the caregiving in these families
2. BJapanese infants are genetically more anxious than infants elsewhere
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

Ainsworth's sensitivity hypothesis proposes that secure attachment results mainly from:

1. AThe caregiver responding promptly and appropriately to the infant's signals
2. BThe amount of time the infant spends with any adult
3. CThe infant's genetic temperament only
4. DStrict feeding schedules