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WorksheetsAP Psychology: Child Development
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
When Leroy's mother hides his favorite toy under a blanket, he acts as though it no longer exists and makes no attempt to retrieve it. Leroy is clearly near the beginning of Piaget's ________ stage.
conventional
preoperational
concrete operational
formal operational
sensorimotor
According to Piaget, a child can represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic during the ________ stage.
concrete operational
postconventional
sensorimotor
formal operational
preoperational
If children cannot grasp the principle of conservation, they are unable to
think about moral situations in abstract, hypothetical ways
retain earlier schemas when confronted by new experiences
see things from the point of view of another person
deal with the discipline of toilet training
recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same despite changes in its shape
The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects is called
conservation
perceptual constancy
object equivalence
object permanence
accommodation
Five-year-old Tammy mistakenly believes that her short, wide glass contains less soda than her brother's tall, narrow glass. Actually, both glasses contain the same amount of soda. This illustrates that Tammy lacks the concept of
conservation
egocentrism
accommodation
object permanence
assimilation
The egocentrism of preschoolers was most strongly emphasized by
Piaget's cognitive development theory
Kohlberg's moral development
Harlow's attachment theory
Lorenz's imprinting theory
Erikson's psychological development theory
According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to
the difficulty perceiving things from another person's point of view
young children's exaggerated interest in themselves and their own pleasure
the process of identity formation between infancy and young adulthood
a sensorimotor need for self-stimulation, as evidenced in thumb sucking
the difficulty realizing that things continue to exist even when they are not visible
According to Piaget, an egocentric child can best be described as
selfish
conceited
lacking in self-esteem
cognitively limited
amoral
Children, even more than teens and adults, are likely to assume that something will be clear to others if it is clear to them. This curse of knowledge illustrates
habituation
assimilation
egocentrism
accommodation
imprinting
Psychologists David Premack and Guy Woodruff described chimpanzees' seeming ability to read intentions as indicative of
a theory of mind
conservation
imprinting
crystallized intelligence
object permanence
A child's realization that others may have beliefs that the child knows to be false best illustrates that the child is not completely
accommodated
postconventional
habituated
egocentric
imprinted
Chloe can clearly sense when her sister's teasing is intended to be friendly fun or a hostile putdown. This best illustrates that Chloe has developed a(n)
theory of mind
insecure attachment
critical period
concept of conservation
sense of object permanence
The ability of preschool children to empathize with classmates who are feeling sad illustrates that preoperational children have developed
conventional morality
postconventional morality
a theory of mind
a sense of integrity
a concept of conservation
In an experiment, children see a doll named Sally leave her ball in a red cupboard and go away. They then observe another doll, Anne, move the ball to a different location. In asking children where Sally will look for the ball upon her return, the investigators are testing the children's
theory of mind
habituation
accommodation
moral reasoning
stranger anxiety
According to Piaget, the ability to think logically about events first develops during the ________ stage.
formal operational
concrete operational
preconventional
sensorimotor
preoperational
According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.
postconventional
preoperational
sensorimotor
concrete operational
formal operational
According to Piaget, a person first comprehends that division is the reverse of multiplication during the ________ stage.
preoperational
formal operational
concrete operational
sensorimotor
conventional
According to Piaget, children acquire the mental operations needed to comprehend such things as mathematical transformations and conservation during the ________ stage.
formal operational
preconventional
sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational
The acquisition of a sense of object permanence is most closely associated with the development of
stranger anxiety
egocentrism
self-awareness
concrete operational intelligence
conservation
