Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Object permanence is the understanding that:

1. AOther people have different thoughts
2. BObjects continue to exist when they cannot be seen
3. CThe amount of liquid stays the same in a different glass
4. DObjects can be sorted by size

Wariness or fear when an unfamiliar person approaches, typically appearing in the second half of the first year, is called:

1. ASeparation anxiety
2. BImprinting
3. CSocial referencing
4. DStranger anxiety

The "rouge test", in which a mark is placed on a child's nose before they look in a mirror, measures:

1. AVisual self-recognition
2. BObject permanence
3. CUnderstanding false beliefs
4. DDepth perception

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

1. AForeclosure
2. BHostile attribution bias
3. CImaginary audience
4. DPersonal fable

Baillargeon found that young infants looked longer at "impossible" events, such as a screen rotating through a box behind it. This suggests infants:

1. AKnow hidden objects still exist earlier than Piaget thought
2. BCannot perceive objects at all once they move behind screens
3. CHave no memory for events that they cannot see
4. DPrefer moving screens to objects that stay still

In Mischel's "marshmallow test", children could eat one treat now or wait to get two. The task measures:

1. AAttachment security
2. BDelay of gratification
3. CConservation
4. DObject permanence

In sociometric studies, how do "rejected" children differ from "neglected" children?

1. ARejected children are disliked; neglected ones are rarely named
2. BRejected children are named as liked more often than other children
3. CNeglected children are the most actively disliked in the class
4. DThe two groups get exactly the same pattern of nominations

In Hughes' "policeman doll" study, most children aged 3½–5 could hide a boy doll where two policemen could not see him. How does this relate to Piaget's three mountains task?

1. AIt confirms that young children are fully egocentric
2. BIt shows that children cannot take any other person's viewpoint before about age 7
3. CIt suggests young children are less egocentric when the task makes sense to them
4. DIt shows that conservation develops before age 3