Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Gibson and Walk's "visual cliff" was designed to study infants':

  1. AAttachment style
  2. BColour vision
  3. CDepth perception
  4. DLanguage comprehension
2.Easy

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

  1. ATemperament
  2. BScaffolding
  3. CMonotropy
  4. DImprinting
3.Easy

Harlow's monkey experiments showed that infant monkeys preferred:

  1. AA wire mother with food over a cloth mother without any food
  2. BA soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food
  3. COther infant monkeys only
  4. DBeing alone to having any mother
4.Medium

A teenager drives dangerously, believing "accidents happen to other people, not to me". Elkind called this belief the:

  1. AForeclosure
  2. BImaginary audience
  3. CPersonal fable
  4. DHostile attribution bias
5.Medium

Young infants in English-speaking homes can tell apart some Hindi speech sounds that English-speaking adults cannot, but most lose this ability by about the end of the first year. This is called:

  1. AHabituation
  2. BFast mapping
  3. CPerceptual narrowing
  4. DOverregularisation
6.Medium

Which attachment type is shown by an infant who is very distressed at separation and both seeks and resists contact at reunion?

  1. ASecure
  2. BInsecure-avoidant
  3. CInsecure-resistant (ambivalent)
  4. DDisorganised only
7.Hard

Hazan and Shaver's "love quiz" found that adults' romantic attachment styles:

  1. AWere completely unrelated to how people recalled their childhood
  2. BWere nearly all insecure-avoidant, unlike the proportions of infant types
  3. CMatched infant type proportions and related to recalled childhood care
  4. DChanged completely from one relationship to the next at random
8.Hard

In an adoption study, adopted children's IQ scores correlate more with their biological parents' scores than with their adoptive parents' scores. This suggests:

  1. AGenetic influence on individual differences in IQ
  2. BThat the family environment has no effect at all on IQ
  3. CThat IQ is fixed at birth
  4. DThat adoptive parents give poor care

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Depth perception
  2. 2. C · Monotropy
  3. 3. B · A soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food
  4. 4. C · Personal fable
  5. 5. C · Perceptual narrowing
  6. 6. C · Insecure-resistant (ambivalent)
  7. 7. C · Matched infant type proportions and related to recalled childhood care
  8. 8. A · Genetic influence on individual differences in IQ

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