Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Who introduced the "zone of proximal development"?

1. AJohn Bowlby
2. BLawrence Kohlberg
3. CLev Vygotsky
4. DJean Piaget

Parents who show little warmth and make few demands, and are largely disengaged from their child, show which style?

1. AAuthoritative
2. BPermissive (indulgent)
3. CAuthoritarian (strict)
4. DUninvolved (neglectful)

A child focuses only on the height of the liquid in a glass and ignores its width. Piaget called this:

1. AObject permanence
2. BAccommodation
3. CCentration
4. DAnimism

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. BPerceptual narrowing
3. CFast mapping
4. DOverregularisation

A researcher tests 5-, 10- and 15-year-olds now and then retests the same groups every two years. This design is called:

1. ACross-sectional
2. BLongitudinal only
3. CCross-sequential
4. DCase study

The Sally–Anne task is used to test whether a child has:

1. AObject permanence
2. BTheory of mind
3. CConservation of number
4. DSecure attachment

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

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

Van IJzendoorn and Kroonenberg's meta-analysis of Strange Situation studies in many countries found that:

1. AAvoidant attachment was the most common type in nearly every country studied
2. BAttachment type proportions were the same in every country studied
3. CSecure was most common everywhere; variation within countries was larger
4. DSecure attachment was common only in Western, individualist countries