SparkNotes: Development: Sample Quiz Questions

1. Which of these theorists believed that people develop through a series of stages related to age?

(A) Jean Piaget

(B) Erik Erikson

(C) Lawrence Kohlberg

(D) All of the above

2. Mark stole a bar of chocolate from a convenience store when he was very hungry. He doesn’t think he did anything wrong since no one noticed him stealing. Mark is probably in which of Kohlberg’s stages of moral development?

(A) Preconventional level

(B) Conventional level

(C) Postconventional level

(D) None of the above

3. What is maturation?

(A) The difference between girls and boys in the timing of puberty

(B) Genetically programmed growth and development

(C) The ability to focus simultaneously on several aspects of a problem

(D) The reaction infants display when separated from people to whom they are attached

4. What is likely the main conflict faced by an adolescent, according to Erikson?

(A) Autonomy vs. shame and doubt

(B) Generativity vs. self-absorption

(C) Identity vs. role confusion

(D) Integrity vs. despair

5. What did Piaget believe children are incapable of during the preoperational stage of development?

(A) Conservation

(B) Hierarchical classification

(C) Abstract thought

(D) All of the above

6. During which stage are teratogens most dangerous?

(A) Germinal stage

(B) Embryonic stage

(C) Fetal stage

(D) Perinatal stage

7. A baby becomes upset when her mother leaves her temporarily but resists contact with the mother when she returns. According to Ainsworth’s classification, what kind of attachment pattern is this?

(A) A secure attachment

(B) Anxious-ambivalent attachment

(C) Avoidant attachment

(D) Avoidant-ambivalent attachment

8. What do social clocks indicate?

(A) The life events, behaviors, and issues that are typical for a particular age

(B) The ages at which children develop specific social skills

(C) The age at which Erikson’s sixth stage of psychosocial development would be likely to occur

(D) When individuals are likely to reach Kohlberg’s final stage of moral development

9. What is the primary root of temperament?

(A) Biological factors

(B) Environmental factors

(C) Gender

(D) Culture

10. Which of the following is true of many people as they age?

(A) They experience a loss of neurons in the brain

(B) They experience a decline in crystallized intelligence

(C) They gain a better sense of well-being

(D) A and C