Exam 17: Social Development

When do infants start to show signs of fear towards strangers?

Signs of moral development emerge not earlier than 5 years of age.

Bandura formulated the 'maternal deprivation' hypothesis, proposing that being deprived of maternal contact during the critical period of 6 months to 3 years of age has significant detrimental social and emotional effects on children.

Which of the following attachment styles was not included in the original classification by Ainsworth et al. (1978)?

In line with the social learning theory, Haviland and Lelwica (1987) found that when mothers displayed an angry or sad face, their 10-week-old infants:

Theory of mind continues to develop over a protracted timespan, perhaps even beyond the school years.

Impairment in the development of theory of mind is argued to account for the severe social problems in _________ disorder.

?----------self refers to thinking about ourselves as members of social categories and groups.

The ___________ task involves a character leaving an object in one location and, while she is away, another character moving the object to a new location. On the first character's return the children are asked where she will look for her object first.

Name four types of mental states.

------------is also called the parenting dimension of 'acceptance'?

It has been proposed that humans have a(n) __________ predisposition to respond emotionally to others.

________ behaviour refers to a set of voluntary behaviours that are intended to benefit another, such as helping, sharing, or comforting.

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

Development in which area of the brain is associated with the emergence of executive functions?

The dimensional change card sort task measures 'hot' executive function.

The 'marshmallow test' measures:

During the first few months of infancy, infants' expressions of emotion tend to appropriately _________ the expressions displayed by their caregivers.

Individual differences in adults' and adolescents' attachment can be measured using in-depth semi-structured interviews and questionnaires.

The first recognizable emotional expression to appear is anger.