Chapter 6 - Infancy: Social and Emotional Development

Which kind of attachment is used to describe babies who seem confused and may move toward the mother while looking away from her?

• disorganized-disoriented.

• secure.

• avoidant.

• ambivalent/resistant.

Sroufe found that insecure attachment at the age of one year predicts psychological disorders at the age of

• 7.

• 17.

• 27.

• 37.

According to Ainsworth, the clear-cut attachment phase occurs at about what age?

• 6 to 7 months

• 10 to 12 months

• 16 to 18 months

• 24 to 36 months

Which of the following views of attachment proposes that there is a critical period for developing attachment?

• behavioral

• psychoanalytic

• cognitive

• ethological

The natives in one Guatemalan village keep their children in a windowless hut and play with them only rarely until they can walk. By what age do the children act as alert and active as children who have been reared normally?

• Actually, they never show any behavioral delays.

• 2

• 5

• 11

By the time a child is two years of age, nine out of ten parents have

• engaged in some sort of psychological or emotional abuse.

• spanked their children.

• pushed or shoved their children.

• sexually abused their children.

Which of the following is not a symptom of autism spectrum disorder?

• losing language or social skills.

• failing to respond to being called by name.

• developing fear of strangers.

• not seeming to know how to play with toys.

What does research evidence show about autism?

• Autism is caused by the vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella.

• Autism is a result of poor child rearing.

• Autism runs in families to some degree.

• Autism is caused by the flu vaccine.

If someone asked you whether or not day care was a good idea for her three-year-old, which of the following answers would be based on research evidence?

• Some children in day care learn to be more cooperative.

• Some children in day care become somewhat more aggressive than they were.

• Children in high-quality day care seem to fare better in some ways than children in poor-quality day care.

• All of the above.

Kim's son is eight months old and has suddenly begun to cry hysterically and cling to her when strangers come over in the supermarket to say how cute he is. Knowing you are a psychology student, she asks you what you think. Which of the following would reflect what you learned reading this chapter?

• Kim has probably abused her son.

• A stranger has threatened or abused her son.

• Her son has an overly reactive nervous system.

• Her son is behaving normally.