Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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

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

1. ADepth perception
2. BUnderstanding false beliefs
3. CObject permanence
4. DVisual self-recognition

A child focuses only on the height of the liquid in a glass and ignores its width. Piaget called this:

1. AAnimism
2. BCentration
3. CObject permanence
4. DAccommodation

Habituation in infant research is used to show that babies:

1. APrefer their own reflection
2. BCan tell two stimuli apart because interest returns when the stimulus changes
3. CAre born with full adult vision
4. DBecome drowsy and sleep more when the same stimulus is presented over and over again

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

1. AHave no memory for events that they cannot see
2. BKnow hidden objects still exist earlier than Piaget thought
3. CPrefer moving screens to objects that stay still
4. DCannot perceive objects at all once they move behind screens

Bowlby's "44 thieves" study linked early prolonged separation from the mother to:

1. AAdvanced moral reasoning
2. BAffectionless psychopathy
3. CHigher intelligence scores
4. DEarly language development

Which finding is a major criticism of Piaget's formal operational stage?

1. AFormal operations usually appear before concrete operations
2. BAdolescents cannot think abstractly at all, even with specific training
3. CMost children reach formal operations by about age 5
4. DMany adults do not reason formally, and it depends on schooling

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

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