Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Conservation is the understanding that:

1. ARules of a game can be changed if all the players agree
2. BQuantity stays the same when its appearance changes
3. COther people have beliefs
4. DObjects exist when out of sight

According to Erikson, the main conflict of adolescence is:

1. AIdentity versus role confusion
2. BIntimacy versus isolation
3. CTrust versus mistrust
4. DIntegrity versus despair

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

1. ACentration
2. BObject permanence
3. CAnimism
4. DAccommodation

Baumrind's authoritative parenting style combines:

1. ALow warmth with strict rules and very little explanation
2. BLow warmth and low involvement
3. CHigh warmth with few rules or demands
4. DHigh warmth with high, clearly explained expectations

A teenager drives dangerously, believing "accidents happen to other people, not to me". Elkind called this belief the:

1. AImaginary audience
2. BPersonal fable
3. CForeclosure
4. DHostile attribution bias

A 5-year-old says a boy who broke 15 cups by accident is naughtier than a boy who broke 1 cup while stealing jam. Piaget called this:

1. AHeteronomous morality (moral realism)
2. BPost-conventional moral reasoning
3. CAutonomous morality (moral relativism)
4. DFormal operational moral thought

Which finding is a major criticism of Piaget's formal operational stage?

1. AFormal operations usually appear before concrete operations
2. BMost children reach formal operations by about age 5
3. CMany adults do not reason formally, and it depends on schooling
4. DAdolescents cannot think abstractly at all, even with specific training

Turiel found that young children say hitting is wrong even if a teacher allows it, but wearing pyjamas to school is fine if the teacher allows it. This suggests children:

1. AJudge all rules only by adult authority
2. BThink that clothing rules are more serious than hitting
3. CHave no understanding of rules before age 7
4. DDistinguish moral rules from social conventions early