Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

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

  1. AScaffolding
  2. BAssimilation
  3. CImprinting
  4. DHabituation
2.Easy

At what age do most children say their first words?

  1. AAround 3 months
  2. BAround 30 months
  3. CAround 12 months
  4. DAround 5 years
3.Easy

Which period of prenatal development comes first?

  1. AGerminal
  2. BEmbryonic
  3. CNeonatal
  4. DFetal
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. AFocusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
  2. BA gradual loss of social skills that tends to come with increasing age
  3. CFear of strangers that grows steadily in later life
  4. DA decline in crystallised intelligence and memory
5.Medium

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

  1. AConservation of number
  2. BTheory of mind
  3. CSecure attachment
  4. DObject permanence
6.Medium

Which ability is most likely to decline from early adulthood onwards?

  1. AKnowledge of word meanings
  2. BExpertise in one's own profession
  3. CSpeed in solving new, unfamiliar problems
  4. DGeneral knowledge about the world
7.Hard

Samuel and Bryant asked children about conservation only once, after the transformation, instead of before and after. Their results showed that:

  1. AChildren did better, suggesting the two-question format misled them
  2. BChildren did worse than in Piaget's version, so he overestimated them
  3. CThe number of questions asked made no difference to the results
  4. DNo child could conserve before age 11 in either version of the task
8.Hard

Van IJzendoorn and Kroonenberg's meta-analysis of Strange Situation studies in many countries found that:

  1. ASecure attachment was common only in Western, individualist countries
  2. BSecure was most common everywhere; variation within countries was larger
  3. CAvoidant attachment was the most common type in nearly every country studied
  4. DAttachment type proportions were the same in every country studied

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Imprinting
  2. 2. C · Around 12 months
  3. 3. A · Germinal
  4. 4. A · Focusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
  5. 5. B · Theory of mind
  6. 6. C · Speed in solving new, unfamiliar problems
  7. 7. A · Children did better, suggesting the two-question format misled them
  8. 8. B · Secure was most common everywhere; variation within countries was larger

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