Developmental Psychology Quiz

Attachment is a deep, enduring emotional bond between an infant and the caregiver.

• True

• False

Jean Piaget found little difference in the thought processes of young children and older children.

• True

• False

Lev Vygotsky placed less emphasis than did Jean Piaget on outside influences on development.

• True

• False

If a child becomes anxious whenever a parent leaves, the child is experiencing separation anxiety.

• True

• False

A infant with secure attachment will behave inconsistently whenever a parent leaves.

• True

• False

Cognitive development

• is a type of reflex that infants possess when they are born.

• involves the growth of thought processes that help children understand their world.

• uses a virtually permanent learning process called imprinting.

• begins when children are approximately 11 to 12 years of age.

What developmental process has taken place once a child realizes that dogs can vary in size?

• assimilation

• imprinting

• accommodation

• zone of proximal development

According to Konrad Lorenz, baby ducks will treat you like their mother if you

• take them away from their mother before they are one week old.

• be the only person who feeds them and protects them from danger.

• play with them several times a day.

• make certain that you are the first thing they see that moves when they hatch.

Lev Vygotsky believed that children learn from working with others. He called this concept

• secure attachment.

• representational thought.

• imprinting.

• the zone of proximal development.

To Harry Harlow why did baby monkeys prefer a cloth surrogate mother over one made of wire?

• The cloth monkey was the only one with food.

• The cloth monkey was easier to hang onto.

• The cloth monkey provided contact comfort.

• The baby monkeys had imprinted to the cloth monkey.