Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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. BAssimilation
3. CAccommodation
4. DEgocentrism

A preoperational child says the sun is following her because it wants to play. This is an example of:

1. AAnimism
2. BConservation
3. CReversibility
4. DSeriation

Egocentrism in Piaget's preoperational stage means children:

1. AFind it hard to see things from another person's viewpoint
2. BOnly think about food
3. CAre selfish and refuse to share their toys with other children
4. DPrefer to play alone

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. AChronosystem
2. BExosystem
3. CMesosystem
4. DMicrosystem

A toddler watches another child have a tantrum and copies it the next day. Piaget saw this deferred imitation as evidence of:

1. AMental representation
2. BConservation
3. CFormal operational thought
4. DMoral realism

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. AOverregularisation
2. BPerceptual narrowing
3. CFast mapping
4. DHabituation

Adults rarely remember events from before the age of about 3. Which explanation is commonly given for this infantile amnesia?

1. AMemories from infancy are all repressed because they are deeply traumatic
2. BImmature brain systems and limited language and self-concept at encoding
3. CInfants have no ability to learn
4. DYoung children experience no events worth remembering

In a Bobo doll variation, children who saw a model punished imitated less aggression, but when all children were offered rewards to copy the model, the differences disappeared. This shows:

1. AThat aggression is entirely innate
2. BA difference between learning a behaviour and performing it
3. CThat punishment prevents any learning
4. DThat children learn only through direct reinforcement of their own actions