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Development/Nature vs. Nurture

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An experiment devised to study the attachment between an infant and her mother done by Mary Ainsworth.

a)

Strange Situation

b)

Monkey Experiment

c)

Sensitive Period

d)

Imprinting

2.

These parents believe children should make and learn from their own mistakes in the loving home environment; they provide few rules.

a)

Permissive

b)

Authoritative

c)

Neglectful

d)

Authoritarian

3.

Roger cried when his mother left him in the infant nursery at church, and he was not reassured or comforted by her return a short while later. Roger showed signs of

a)

secure attachment

b)

habituation

c)

maturation

d)

insecure attachment.

4.

Mr. DiNozzo spends time each day holding and rocking his infant daughter. This time together should serve most directly to promote

a)

secure attachment

b)

stranger anxiety

c)

isolation

d)

insecure attachment

5.

What type of development do developmental psychologist study?

a)

physical

b)

social

c)

cognitive

d)

all of the above

6.

An environmental agent that could cause birth defects or other developmental delays.

a)

Teratogens

b)

Epigenetics

c)

Carcinogens

d)

Parabens

7.
Children, who in infancy formed secure attachments to their parents, are more likely than other children to:
a)
Prefer the company of adults to that of other children
b)
Become permissive parents
c)

Show a willingness to explore

d)
Be less achievement oriented
8.

This type of parent(s) is totally uninvolved with their child(ren) and does not meet their basic needs.

a)

Permissive

b)

Neglectful

c)

Authoritative

d)

Authoritarian

9.

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

a)

isolation

b)

imprinting

c)

critical period

d)

attachment

10.

According to Diana Baumrind, which of the following is a parenting style that, among children raised in the United States, is most closely associated with the development of self-reliance and confidence?

a)

Authoritarian

b)

Authoritative

c)

Permissive

d)

Neglectful

11.

Development, contact comfort, attachment. Experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire "mothers;".

a)

Harry Harlow

b)

Abraham Maslow

c)

Konrad Lorenz

d)

John Bowlby

12.

According to Konrad Lorenz, what is the term for the attachment of baby geese to a mother figure?

a)

Imprinting

b)

Critical Period

c)

Sensitive Period

d)

None of the above

13.

What is the term for the biological growth processes that are relatively uninfluenced by experience?

a)

Maturation

b)

Imprinting

c)

Habituation

d)

Isolation

14.

The Critical Period of attachment is...

a)

a psychologist who said that attachments were formed for survival.

b)

an attachment to one primary caregiver.

c)

A time where attachment must take place or there will be long term consequences.

d)

the child is quite independent of the caregiver.

15.

One of the leading figures in Attachment Theory who believed that the bond between infants and their chief caretaker had an impact in the rest of their life and worked with Mary Ainsworth.

a)

Konrad Lorenz

b)

Harry Harlow

c)

John Bowlby

d)

Diana Baumrind

16.

What is the purpose of doing twin and adoptive children studies?

a)

To answer the stabile vs change debate

b)

To answer the nature vs nurture debate

c)

To answer the stages vs continuous debate

d)

To answer the Kate vs Meghan debate

17.

Personality over time would likely be discussed during which of the following?

a)

The stabile vs change debate

b)

The nature vs nurture debate

c)

The stages vs continuous debate

d)

The clock change debate