Exam 17: Social Development

The understanding of how you can control the impressions you make on others is known as:

Children raised with a(n) ___________ parenting style tend to be more anxious and/or angry, have low levels of psychosocial maturity, and are more likely to become bullies.

What procedure, introduced by Ainsworth and colleagues (1978), is the gold-standard measure for assessing attachment status in infants?

___________ refers to individual differences in children's emotional experiences and responses which are thought to be __________ based and relative __________ over time.

Stevnis a 3-year old boy who very rarely uses his mother as a secure base. When his mum shows up at day care to pick him up, Steve shows little emotion, sometimes he even ignores her. If you were a developmental psychologist how would you classify Steve's attachment style?

One of the nine characteristics of infants' temperament proposed by Thomas, Chess, and Birch (1970) is intensity of:

Infants with slow-to-warm-up temperament are slightly negative in mood, mild in intensity, and low in adaptability, approach, and activity.

The propensity to form an attachment relationship is determined by _________ factors.

Discuss what aspects of social interaction are associated with typical development of theory of mind.

The ability to pass false-belief tasks reflects the shift in reasoning about behaviour based on an understanding of _________to one involving reasoning about _________.

According to Kohlberg's (1966) cognitive development account of gender development, what are the three milestones of children's understanding of gender?

A social learning account of moral development posits that children's sense of right and wrong is transmitted to them by __________ agents, through processes of ___________ (e.g. rewards given following a 'right' behaviour) and __________ (e.g. exposing the child to prosocial behaviour).

Which of the following characteristics is not typical of an infant with an easy temperament, according to Thomas, Chess, and Birch (1970)?

Infants can mimic or match the facial expressions of others:

What is a 'mastery smile'?

What is the first response of an infant to unpleasant stimuli and situations?

Describe the conventional level of moral development as postulated by Kohlberg.

What is a central aspect of attachment behaviour assessed by the strange situation procedure?

Which of the following is not one of Kohlberg's levels of moral development?

Researchers have shown that mothers tend to engage in more emotional talk with boys than girls.