Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Knowledge and vocabulary built up over a lifetime, which tend to stay stable or grow with age, are called:

1. AFluid intelligence
2. BEmotional intelligence
3. CProcessing speed
4. DCrystallised intelligence

Object permanence is the understanding that:

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

A newborn turns its head towards a touch on the cheek and opens its mouth. This is the:

1. ARooting reflex
2. BMoro reflex
3. CGrasping reflex
4. DBabinski reflex

Fantz showed infants pairs of patterns and measured how long they looked at each. Many young infants looked longest at:

1. APlain coloured discs
2. BBlank grey cards
3. CPrinted text
4. DFace-like patterns

Bandura's Bobo doll study demonstrated:

1. AAggression is purely genetic
2. BPunishment of a model always reduces children's aggression
3. CChildren only imitate other children
4. DChildren learn aggressive behaviour by observing adults

A 3-year-old hears a new word once, "This is the chromium tray", and later picks out the correct tray. This is called:

1. AOverextension
2. BBabbling
3. CTelegraphic speech
4. DFast mapping

A critic argues that Piaget underestimated young children. Which finding supports this?

1. AInfants show no memory of hidden objects at all
2. BChildren never pass false-belief tasks before age 7
3. CAdults rarely reason abstractly
4. DChildren conserve number earlier when the task is changed so the transformation seems accidental

Harlow's monkeys raised in isolation with only surrogate mothers later showed which outcome?

1. ACompletely normal adult social behaviour
2. BBetter problem solving than monkeys that had been reared by real mothers
3. CAbnormal social behaviour and difficulty caring for their own young
4. DStrong attachment to the wire mother as adults