Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Repetitive syllables such as "ba-ba-ba" in an infant's vocalisations are called:

  1. AHolophrases
  2. BCooing
  3. CTelegraphic speech
  4. DBabbling
2.Easy

Bowlby's idea that infants form one special primary attachment, usually to the mother, is called:

  1. AImprinting
  2. BTemperament
  3. CScaffolding
  4. DMonotropy
3.Easy

Who introduced the "zone of proximal development"?

  1. ALev Vygotsky
  2. BLawrence Kohlberg
  3. CJohn Bowlby
  4. DJean Piaget
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 gradual loss of social skills that tends to come with increasing age
  2. BFear of strangers that grows steadily in later life
  3. CA decline in crystallised intelligence and memory
  4. DFocusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
5.Medium

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

  1. APermissive
  2. BAuthoritative
  3. CAuthoritarian
  4. DUninvolved
6.Medium

Habituation in infant research is used to show that babies:

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

A child is shown a Smarties tube, guesses it contains sweets, and finds pencils. Asked what a friend who has not looked will think is inside, a typical 3-year-old says "pencils". This shows:

  1. AA lack of object permanence
  2. BAn advanced theory of mind
  3. CDifficulty understanding false beliefs
  4. DA failure to conserve quantity
8.Hard

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

Answer key

  1. 1. D · Babbling
  2. 2. D · Monotropy
  3. 3. A · Lev Vygotsky
  4. 4. D · Focusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
  5. 5. C · Authoritarian
  6. 6. B · Can tell two stimuli apart because interest returns when the stimulus changes
  7. 7. C · Difficulty understanding false beliefs
  8. 8. D · It suggests young children are less egocentric when the task makes sense to them

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