Developmental Psychology Quiz

After fertilization, the egg goes through a 2-week period of rapid cell division. What is this stage called?

• zygote

• embryo

• fetus

• rooting reflex

What is the natural response when a baby is given a rattle in her hand?

• Startle reflex

• Grasping reflex

• Rooting reflex

• Sucking reflex

What is the term for the mental activities of thinking, knowing, and remembering?

• cognition

• stranger anxiety

• attachment

• imprinting

The process by which some animals form attachments early in life

• authoritarian parenting

• permissive parenting

• imprinting

• critical period

Mia, age 12, starts thinking logically about abstract ideas. What stage is this?

• concrete operational stage

• formal operational stage

• permissive parenting

• imprinting

Pioneer in the study of developmental psychology who introduced a stage theory of cognitive development

• Jean Piaget

• Harry Harlow

• cognition

• attachment

When a baby feels nervous and clings to a parent around strangers, what is this behavior called?

• sensorimotor stage

• stranger anxiety

• preoperational stage

• egocentrism

The inability of a preoperational child to see things from another's perspective

• concrete operational stage

• formal operational stage

• egocentrism

• imprinting

What can we learn from Harry Harlow's "Monkey Mother" Experiment?

• The importance of food

• Monkeys are better at socializing when they come out the cage

• Contact comfort is the most important factor when forming attachment

• Contact is equally as important as food when forming an attachment

Michael's parents have strict rules and expect him to follow them without question. What parenting style is this?

• authoritarian parenting

• permissive parenting

• attachment

• critical period