Exam 4: How Important Are Parents

A mother uses harsh punishment and consistently yells at her child. By using engaging in this relational aggression, there is a likelihood that this form of parental control would attribute itself toward a child's dysfunction.

Instead of predicting child outcomes based solely on attachment classification at 12 months of age, current parent-child attachment research focuses on an individual's ______.

List and briefly describe two behavioral genetics-based challenges to the idea that parents influence child development.

A ______ period in development represents a time period early in life when an organism is particularly susceptible or vulnerable to experiences or substances and damage is irreversible.

Susie's father, Paul, has a history of aggressive behavior. The diathesis-stress model would argue that, in light of the Susie's genetic predisposition toward aggression, the environment plays ______ in determining whether Susie will also display problematic behavior.