AP Psychology: Development Test Practice

Stranger Situation, studied attachments

• Ainsworth
• Harlow 
• Freud

 raised monkeys with either a wire mesh “mother” or a wire mesh mother covered with a furry carpet

• Piaget
• Harlow
• Siligman

human development is gradual

• Stability and changes
• continuity & stages

A baby looks under the sofa for a ball that has just rolled underneath it. According to Jean Piaget, the baby's action shows development of

• conservation of mass
• reversibility
• object permanence
• logical thinking

Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation paradigm is typically used to test young children's

• ego strength
• intelligence
• attachment
• reaction time

According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, one of five stages frequently experienced by people facing death is 

• mistrust
• bargaining
• regression
• generativity

A nine-year-old girl first learning about her capabilities on the playground and in the classroom would be in which of Erikson's stages of development?

• competence v. inferiority
• identity v. confusion
• autonomy v. shame
• integrity v. despair

A normally functioning 65-year-old who cannot solve abstract logic puzzles as quickly as he did when he was younger is experiencing a

• phenomenon that is uncommon for people of his age
• phenomenon predicted by Erik Erikson as part of the eight stages of psycho-social development
• decrease in his crystallized intelligence
• decrease in his fluid intelligence

Gender typing is best described as

• the realization that gender is stable, regardless of superficial behaviors such as dress
• a preferential interest of a female child in the attention of the mother
• the acquisition of the roles associated with distinctions between male and female
• adolescents integrating social, sexual, intellectual, and ethical aspects into a self-identity

What is the first stage of Piaget's cognitive development?

• Preoperational
• Sensorimotor 
• Formal operational
• Concrete operational