Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Wariness or fear when an unfamiliar person approaches, typically appearing in the second half of the first year, is called:

1. ASocial referencing
2. BSeparation anxiety
3. CStranger anxiety
4. DImprinting

A toddler says "Daddy go car" and "want milk". This stage of language is called:

1. ACooing
2. BOverregularisation
3. CBabbling
4. DTelegraphic speech

A preoperational child says the sun is following her because it wants to play. This is an example of:

1. AAnimism
2. BReversibility
3. CSeriation
4. DConservation

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

1. AEarly language development
2. BAffectionless psychopathy
3. CHigher intelligence scores
4. DAdvanced moral reasoning

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. AFear of strangers that grows steadily in later life
2. BFocusing on emotionally meaningful goals as time feels shorter
3. CA gradual loss of social skills that tends to come with increasing age
4. DA decline in crystallised intelligence and memory

A 9-year-old can arrange sticks from shortest to longest quickly and without errors. This ability is called:

1. AConservation
2. BSeriation
3. CAccommodation
4. DAnimism

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

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

A teacher plans maths lessons. Which plan fits Vygotsky's view better than Piaget's?

1. ATeach only the tasks that pupils can already complete independently, without any help
2. BPair pupils with a more skilled partner and give guided help just beyond their level
3. CLet pupils discover the rules alone with no adult guidance
4. DWait until pupils reach the right stage before teaching the topic