Developmental psychology worksheet with answers

A teenager feels that everyone at school will notice a small spot on her face. Elkind called this belief the:

1. AIdentity crisis
2. BImaginary audience
3. CPersonal fable
4. DMoral realism

Understanding that an action can be mentally undone, such as pouring water back into the first glass, is called:

1. AEgocentrism
2. BAnimism
3. CCentration
4. DReversibility

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

1. AImprinting
2. BHabituation
3. CAssimilation
4. DScaffolding

Kagan described some toddlers who are consistently shy, cautious and quiet with unfamiliar people and situations. This temperament is called:

1. AIdentity diffusion
2. BBehavioural inhibition
3. CLearned helplessness
4. DDisorganised attachment

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

1. AObject permanence
2. BConservation of number
3. CTheory of mind
4. DSecure attachment

A toddler watches another child have a tantrum and copies it the next day. Piaget saw this deferred imitation as evidence of:

1. AMoral realism
2. BFormal operational thought
3. CConservation
4. DMental representation

Genie was isolated and given almost no language input until she was found at age 13. Later she learned many words but never mastered grammar. This case is often used to support:

1. AA critical or sensitive period for language acquisition
2. BThe idea that language is learned only through reinforcement
3. CThe claim that grammar is learned faster than vocabulary
4. DThe idea that age has no effect on language learning

Adults rarely remember events from before the age of about 3. Which explanation is commonly given for this infantile amnesia?

1. AYoung children experience no events worth remembering
2. BMemories from infancy are all repressed because they are deeply traumatic
3. CInfants have no ability to learn
4. DImmature brain systems and limited language and self-concept at encoding