Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Harlow's monkey experiments showed that infant monkeys preferred:

1. ABeing alone to having any mother
2. BOther infant monkeys only
3. CA wire mother with food over a cloth mother without any food
4. DA soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food

In Piaget's theory, which stage comes first?

1. ASensorimotor
2. BFormal operational
3. CConcrete operational
4. DPreoperational

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

1. AImprinting
2. BHabituation
3. CScaffolding
4. DAssimilation

Scaffolding refers to:

1. ABuilding one fixed curriculum that every child must follow in order
2. BSupport given to a learner that is reduced as competence grows
3. CPunishing errors so they are not repeated
4. DLetting children discover everything alone

The Sally–Anne task is used to test whether a child has:

1. ASecure attachment
2. BConservation of number
3. CTheory of mind
4. DObject permanence

A 9-month-old finds a toy hidden under cloth A several times. The toy is then hidden under cloth B in full view, but the infant searches under A again. This is:

1. ACentration
2. BConservation failure
3. CAnimism
4. DThe A-not-B error

In Vygotsky's theory, private speech in young children is seen as:

1. AA sign of egocentrism with no function
2. BSpeech mainly intended to communicate information to other people nearby
3. CA symptom of a language delay
4. DA tool for guiding their own thinking that later becomes inner speech

Genie was isolated and given almost no language input until she was found at age 13. Later she learned many words but never mastered grammar. This case is often used to support:

1. AThe claim that grammar is learned faster than vocabulary
2. BThe idea that language is learned only through reinforcement
3. CThe idea that age has no effect on language learning
4. DA critical or sensitive period for language acquisition