Exam 17: Social Development

A longitudinal study by the ___________ (NICHD) did not reveal a main effect of day care on children's attachment security.

Children raised with a(n) ___________ parenting style tend to have the best developmental outcomes.

"Warmth - Clear rules - Supportive - High expectations". These are all characteristics typical of a(n) ____________ parenting style.

Maternal __________ indicates the degree to which a mother is sensitive and responsive to her infant's signals and needs.

Preverbal conversation in infants emerges:

Provide an example of an emotion whose experience requires the ability of the infant to make self-evaluations.

Popular children are rated by peers as dominant, authoritarian, assertive and aggressive.

When do the first 'social smiles' appear in infancy?

Only after 2 years of age children begin to develop:

The ____________ hypothesis posits that children who did not get sufficient maternal contact during a critical period showed detrimental social and emotional effects.

Infants have a rudimentary form of empathetic behaviour from birth, crying when they hear another infant cry. This basic form of empathy is known as ______________.

Which of the following theorists is known for his/her experiment using an inflatable 'Bobo' doll to study imitative learning?

What does a 'Vygotskian approach' mean in reference to children's cognitive development?

Which of the following adult attachment classification categories is not part of the AAI?

The impact of media exposure on children's behaviour is likely to depend on social factors, developmental processes, and individual differences.

The __________ emotions theory suggests that there are several innate emotional responses that are expressed and recognized universally.

__________ is the idea, originally supported by Bowlby, that infants have an inbuilt bias to form an exclusive attachment to one main figure only.

The dimensional change card sort task measures children's working memory ability.

What developmental psychologist suggested that a key shift in moral understanding occurs when children move from the preoperational stage to the concrete operations stage?

The self-conscious emotion of _________ has been linked to lower levels of antisocial behaviour and delinquency.