Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Harlow's monkey experiments showed that infant monkeys preferred:

  1. ABeing alone to having any mother
  2. BA wire mother with food over a cloth mother without any food
  3. COther infant monkeys only
  4. DA soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food
2.Easy

A child understands that she will stay a girl even if she cuts her hair short or plays football. Kohlberg called this:

  1. AGender constancy
  2. BGender typing
  3. CGender role
  4. DGender schema
3.Easy

Which researcher used the "Strange Situation" to classify attachment types?

  1. ALev Vygotsky
  2. BMary Ainsworth
  3. CErik Erikson
  4. DHarry Harlow
4.Medium

According to Piaget, assimilation means:

  1. AFitting new information into an existing schema
  2. BCopying the behaviour of a model
  3. CChanging an existing schema to fit new information
  4. DForgetting an old schema
5.Medium

Habituation in infant research is used to show that babies:

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

A 9-month-old finds a toy hidden under cloth A several times. The toy is then hidden under cloth B in full view, but the infant searches under A again. This is:

  1. ACentration
  2. BConservation failure
  3. CThe A-not-B error
  4. DAnimism
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. BChanged completely from one relationship to the next at random
  3. CMatched infant type proportions and related to recalled childhood care
  4. DWere nearly all insecure-avoidant, unlike the proportions of infant types
8.Hard

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

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

Answer key

  1. 1. D · A soft cloth mother without food over a wire mother with food
  2. 2. A · Gender constancy
  3. 3. B · Mary Ainsworth
  4. 4. A · Fitting new information into an existing schema
  5. 5. A · Can tell two stimuli apart because interest returns when the stimulus changes
  6. 6. C · The A-not-B error
  7. 7. C · Matched infant type proportions and related to recalled childhood care
  8. 8. D · Children conserve number earlier when the task is changed so the transformation seems accidental

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