Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AOverregularisation
2. BTelegraphic speech
3. CBabbling
4. DCooing

Differences between age groups that are caused by growing up in different historical times are called:

1. AOrder effects
2. BCeiling effects
3. CCohort effects
4. DPractice effects

Parents who are warm and affectionate but set few rules or demands show which style?

1. AUninvolved
2. BPermissive
3. CAuthoritarian
4. DAuthoritative

An 18-year-old becomes a dentist like her parents expected, without ever considering other options. In Marcia's model, her identity status is:

1. AForeclosure
2. BIdentity achievement
3. CIdentity diffusion
4. DMoratorium

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. BPerceptual narrowing
3. CFast mapping
4. DOverregularisation

In Kohlberg's theory, a person who judges right and wrong mainly by avoiding punishment is at which level?

1. AFormal operational
2. BPost-conventional
3. CPre-conventional
4. DConventional

Which finding is a major criticism of Piaget's formal operational stage?

1. AAdolescents cannot think abstractly at all, even with specific training
2. BFormal operations usually appear before concrete operations
3. CMany adults do not reason formally, and it depends on schooling
4. DMost children reach formal operations by about age 5

Dodge found that aggressive children are more likely to think a peer who bumped into them did it on purpose, even when the situation was ambiguous. This is called:

1. ASelf-serving bias
2. BThe personal fable
3. CHostile attribution bias
4. DImaginary audience bias