Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Harlow's monkey experiments showed that infant monkeys preferred:

  1. AOther infant monkeys only
  2. BA soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food
  3. CA wire mother with food over a cloth mother without any food
  4. DBeing alone to having any mother
2.Easy

Which period of prenatal development comes first?

  1. ANeonatal
  2. BFetal
  3. CGerminal
  4. DEmbryonic
3.Easy

Konrad Lorenz found that goslings followed the first moving object they saw after hatching. This is called:

  1. AScaffolding
  2. BHabituation
  3. CImprinting
  4. DAssimilation
4.Medium

Older adults often prefer spending time with a few close friends rather than meeting new people. Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory explains this as:

  1. AA decline in crystallised intelligence and memory
  2. BA gradual loss of social skills that tends to come with increasing age
  3. CFear of strangers that grows steadily in later life
  4. DFocusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
5.Medium

A 1-year-old says "up!" while raising her arms, meaning "Pick me up". A single word used to express a whole idea is called a:

  1. ATelegraphic sentence
  2. BHolophrase
  3. CPhoneme
  4. DMorpheme
6.Medium

A parent sets strict rules, expects obedience without discussion and says "Because I said so". This style is:

  1. AAuthoritative
  2. BPermissive
  3. CAuthoritarian
  4. DUninvolved
7.Hard

Romanian orphan studies (Rutter and colleagues) found that children adopted after about 6 months of severe deprivation:

  1. AWere more likely to show lasting difficulties than those adopted earlier
  2. BHad better outcomes than children adopted earlier
  3. CShowed no differences from non-adopted children raised in their birth families
  4. DRecovered completely regardless of adoption age
8.Hard

Main's Adult Attachment Interview found that parents who describe their own childhood in a coherent, balanced way tend to have infants who:

  1. AAre securely attached in the Strange Situation
  2. BShow no attachment at all
  3. CDevelop formal operational thought earlier
  4. DAre always insecure-avoidant

Answer key

  1. 1. B · A soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food
  2. 2. C · Germinal
  3. 3. C · Imprinting
  4. 4. D · Focusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
  5. 5. B · Holophrase
  6. 6. C · Authoritarian
  7. 7. A · Were more likely to show lasting difficulties than those adopted earlier
  8. 8. A · Are securely attached in the Strange Situation

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