Exam 17: Social Development

Rather than emphasizing parental influence, Harris's (1995, 2002) ___________ argues that genetic inheritance and children's wider social environment play a much greater role in children's social development than parenting styles.

Although attachment has a strong biological basis, the quality of the attachment relationship is dependent on the infant's ___________

Provide one example of a social convention and one example of a moral imperative.

Provide an example of a self-conscious emotion.

Research shows that fathers tend to engage in more challenging play with their infants, which is thought to be crucial for promoting ___________ behaviour.

What did Rochat and Hespos (1997) use to show that infants have a basic sense that they are distinct and separate from others?

Which of the following is not a parenting style proposed by Maccoby and Martin (1983)?

What term describes the ability to read the infant's behaviour in terms of underlying internal mental states?

Describe the structured sequence of episodes of a classical strange situation procedure.

The 'marshmallow test' is a(n) _________ task.

The development of gender identity solely reflects biological and hormonal differences.

Executive functions can be distinguished between:

"The person recognizes that different societies may have different norms and expectations, and that rules and laws are created for people's mutual benefit". This describes what occurs at Stage ________ of moral development according to Kohlberg's model.

According to Kohlberg's model of moral development, all individuals will eventually progress to the postconventional level.

Provide an example of a risk factor which influences maternal sensitivity, affecting attachment style.

_____________ refers to the ability of reading the emotional reactions of others to help to inform our behaviour in ambiguous situations.

Proto-imperative pointing refers to the infant's gesture indicating to their social partner that they desire an object.

With reference to your textbook, describe how ethnic identity manifests as 'awareness', 'identification', 'attitudes', and 'behaviours'.

Which of the following items is not one of the three key dimensions of parenting identified by Baumrind (1971)?

The three types of infants' temperament described by Thomas, Chess, and Birch (1970) are negative temperament, positive temperament, and slow-to-warm-up temperament.