Exam 6: Social and Personality Development in Infancy

From Research Report on page 144: What two factors are likely to contribute to gender differences in temperament?

Roberto is 11 months old. He smiles a lot, is generally cheerful and shows little anxiety around strangers. Which type of temperament does Roberto have?

Based on the video BLANK, explain why it is important that children learn to regulate emotions.

Which of the following is NOT a self-conscious emotion?

Define objective self. What is another term for objective self?

Bart depends on his mother for everything he needs. When he cries, she responds with food or a clean diaper or a cuddle. Erikson would say that Bart's mother is helping him resolve the conflict known as

In the Harlow monkey studies, with which "mother" did the infant monkeys spend the most time?

Your neighbor Sarah told you that her two children were obviously very different and it was noticeable right from birth. According to Sarah, her son was fussy and rarely slept through the night, while her daughter was calm and adapted very easily to any situation. Sarah is describing which aspect of her children's differing personalities?

Children become self aware around the age of ________ months.

List some of the behaviors you would expect to see in a child with an insecure/ambivalent attachment,

The type of attachment seen in phase 3 of Bowlby's attachment theory is called ________ .

_________ is most associated with the view that infants are biologically predisposed to form emotional bonds with caregivers and that the characteristics of those bonds shape later social and personality development.

________ attachment is characterized by dazed or confused behavior by the infant, with a contradictory pattern of responding to the primary caregiver.

What is unique about the Efe culture in regard to child rearing?

Which of the following is associated with shyness?

Jaslin is a caregiver in a local day care. Parents often describe her as involved, positive, and responsive to the children. Jaslin would be defined as what type of caregiver?

Gregory cries and his mother responds immediately. When he coos at his mother, she smiles and cuddles him. Developmentalists would say that this is an example of ________.

What did researchers find in cross-cultural studies of attachment?

________ is a pattern of responding to people and objects in the environment.

What is unique about the day care center shown in the video?