Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

Object permanence is the understanding that:

1. AThe amount of liquid stays the same in a different glass
2. BOther people have different thoughts
3. CObjects can be sorted by size
4. DObjects continue to exist when they cannot be seen

According to Erikson, the main challenge of young adulthood is:

1. AIntegrity versus despair
2. BIdentity versus role confusion
3. CIntimacy versus isolation
4. DGenerativity versus stagnation

Knowledge and vocabulary built up over a lifetime, which tend to stay stable or grow with age, are called:

1. AProcessing speed
2. BFluid intelligence
3. CEmotional intelligence
4. DCrystallised intelligence

Which statement about the formal operational stage is correct?

1. AChildren first develop object permanence
2. BChildren cannot yet use symbols
3. CAdolescents can reason about abstract and hypothetical problems
4. DThinking is limited to concrete objects that are physically in front of them

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

An infant in the Strange Situation approaches the parent with the head turned away, then freezes. Contradictory behaviour like this indicates which attachment type?

1. ASecure
2. BDisorganised
3. CInsecure-avoidant
4. DInsecure-resistant

On a visual cliff set to a moderate drop, most infants crossed when their mother smiled but few crossed when she showed fear. This shows:

1. AThat infants cannot perceive depth
2. BSocial referencing: using a caregiver's emotion to guide behaviour
3. CThat infants ignore their caregivers' facial expressions in new situations
4. DImprinting on the mother's face

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

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