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AP Psychology: Child Development

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

conventional

b)

preoperational

c)

concrete operational

d)

formal operational

e)

sensorimotor

2.

According to Piaget, a child can represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic during the ________ stage.

a)

concrete operational

b)

postconventional

c)

sensorimotor

d)

formal operational

e)

preoperational

3.

If children cannot grasp the principle of conservation, they are unable to

a)

think about moral situations in abstract, hypothetical ways

b)

retain earlier schemas when confronted by new experiences

c)

see things from the point of view of another person

d)

deal with the discipline of toilet training

e)

recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same despite changes in its shape

4.

The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects is called

a)

conservation

b)

perceptual constancy

c)

object equivalence

d)

object permanence

e)

accommodation

5.

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

a)

conservation

b)

egocentrism

c)

accommodation

d)

object permanence

e)

assimilation

6.

The egocentrism of preschoolers was most strongly emphasized by

a)

Piaget's cognitive development theory

b)

Kohlberg's moral development

c)

Harlow's attachment theory

d)

Lorenz's imprinting theory

e)

Erikson's psychological development theory

7.

According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to

a)

the difficulty perceiving things from another person's point of view

b)

young children's exaggerated interest in themselves and their own pleasure

c)

the process of identity formation between infancy and young adulthood

d)

a sensorimotor need for self-stimulation, as evidenced in thumb sucking

e)

the difficulty realizing that things continue to exist even when they are not visible

8.

According to Piaget, an egocentric child can best be described as

a)

selfish

b)

conceited

c)

lacking in self-esteem

d)

cognitively limited

e)

amoral

9.

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

a)

habituation

b)

assimilation

c)

egocentrism

d)

accommodation

e)

imprinting

10.

Psychologists David Premack and Guy Woodruff described chimpanzees' seeming ability to read intentions as indicative of

a)

a theory of mind

b)

conservation

c)

imprinting

d)

crystallized intelligence

e)

object permanence

11.

A child's realization that others may have beliefs that the child knows to be false best illustrates that the child is not completely

a)

accommodated

b)

postconventional

c)

habituated

d)

egocentric

e)

imprinted

12.

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)

a)

theory of mind

b)

insecure attachment

c)

critical period

d)

concept of conservation

e)

sense of object permanence

13.

The ability of preschool children to empathize with classmates who are feeling sad illustrates that preoperational children have developed

a)

conventional morality

b)

postconventional morality

c)

a theory of mind

d)

a sense of integrity

e)

a concept of conservation

14.

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

a)

theory of mind

b)

habituation

c)

accommodation

d)

moral reasoning

e)

stranger anxiety

15.

According to Piaget, the ability to think logically about events first develops during the ________ stage.

a)

formal operational

b)

concrete operational

c)

preconventional

d)

sensorimotor

e)

preoperational

16.

According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.

a)

postconventional

b)

preoperational

c)

sensorimotor

d)

concrete operational

e)

formal operational

17.

According to Piaget, a person first comprehends that division is the reverse of multiplication during the ________ stage.

a)

preoperational

b)

formal operational

c)

concrete operational

d)

sensorimotor

e)

conventional

18.

According to Piaget, children acquire the mental operations needed to comprehend such things as mathematical transformations and conservation during the ________ stage.

a)

formal operational

b)

preconventional

c)

sensorimotor

d)

preoperational

e)

concrete operational

19.

The acquisition of a sense of object permanence is most closely associated with the development of

a)

stranger anxiety

b)

egocentrism

c)

self-awareness

d)

concrete operational intelligence

e)

conservation