Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

In Piaget's theory, which stage comes first?

1. APreoperational
2. BConcrete operational
3. CFormal operational
4. DSensorimotor

Egocentrism in Piaget's preoperational stage means children:

1. AOnly think about food
2. BAre selfish and refuse to share their toys with other children
3. CPrefer to play alone
4. DFind it hard to see things from another person's viewpoint

Bowlby's idea that infants form one special primary attachment, usually to the mother, is called:

1. AMonotropy
2. BScaffolding
3. CImprinting
4. DTemperament

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. APerceptual narrowing
2. BFast mapping
3. COverregularisation
4. DHabituation

According to Piaget, assimilation means:

1. AFitting new information into an existing schema
2. BForgetting an old schema
3. CCopying the behaviour of a model
4. DChanging an existing schema to fit new information

Kagan described some toddlers who are consistently shy, cautious and quiet with unfamiliar people and situations. This temperament is called:

1. AIdentity diffusion
2. BDisorganised attachment
3. CLearned helplessness
4. DBehavioural inhibition

Harlow's monkeys raised in isolation with only surrogate mothers later showed which outcome?

1. ABetter problem solving than monkeys that had been reared by real mothers
2. BAbnormal social behaviour and difficulty caring for their own young
3. CCompletely normal adult social behaviour
4. DStrong attachment to the wire mother as adults

Hazan and Shaver's "love quiz" found that adults' romantic attachment styles:

1. AWere nearly all insecure-avoidant, unlike the proportions of infant types
2. BMatched infant type proportions and related to recalled childhood care
3. CChanged completely from one relationship to the next at random
4. DWere completely unrelated to how people recalled their childhood