Exam 10: Emotional Development

Five-year-old John is afraid of dogs. His grandparents have two small dogs, and his parents ask your advice on how to help John manage his fear. What advice can you give them?

During Bowlby's "attachment-in-the-making" phase,

Describe the Strange Situation. Identify and describe secure attachment and the three patterns of insecure attachment.

Infant Doris has an attachment quality that changes from one insecure pattern to another. Doris is probably

Alexandar Thomas and Stella Chess discovered that __________ can modify children's temperament considerably.

Most neurobiological research has focused on children who fall at opposite extremes of the __________ and __________ dimensions of temperament.

Three-year-old Kaylee wet her bed one night. In the morning, her mother said, "Wetting the bed is bad. I thought you were a good girl." Kaylee's self-evaluation is most strongly influenced by her

Toddlers in Western cultures who sleep alone and experience frequent daytime separations from their parents

One criticism of home research observations of temperament is that

Dr. Petty is researching preschoolers' capacity to voluntarily suppress a dominant response in order to plan and execute a more adaptive response. She is focusing on variations in how effectively a child can focus and shift attention, inhibit impulses, and manage negative emotions. Dr. Petty is studying

When emotional self-regulation has developed well, young people acquire a sense of

Jorge is slow to accept new experiences, tends to react negatively and intensely, and has irregular daily routines. Jorge's temperament is classified as

Between ages 3 and 6,

The __________ emphasizes that the broad function of __________ is to energize behavior aimed at attaining personal goals.

Baby Brenda is an anxious, emotionally reactive child with a reduced capacity for regulating emotion. Brenda's inability to learn to calm herself may be a result of parents who

Mr. and Mrs. Paxton are adopting Aina, a 5-year-old who has lived in a large orphanage her whole life. Which of the following can the Paxtons expect to experience?

Mr. and Mrs. Yen know that their young son is aggressive and impulsive. As a result, they change their child-rearing style to counteract their son's maladaptive behavior. Mr. and Mrs. Yen are using

Which of the following four babies who went to the doctor for the same vaccination will most likely remember it better?

Which of the following is an example of a basic emotion?

You wonder if your son's fear of birds has become a phobia. One indication that it has would be if