Development/Nature vs. Nurture

An experiment devised to study the attachment between an infant and her mother done by Mary Ainsworth.

• Strange Situation

• Monkey Experiment

• Sensitive Period

• Imprinting

These parents believe children should make and learn from their own mistakes in the loving home environment; they provide few rules.

• Permissive

• Authoritative

• Neglectful

• Authoritarian

Roger cried when his mother left him in the infant nursery at church, and he was not reassured or comforted by her return a short while later. Roger showed signs of

• secure attachment

• habituation

• maturation

• insecure attachment.

Mr. DiNozzo spends time each day holding and rocking his infant daughter. This time together should serve most directly to promote

• secure attachment

• stranger anxiety

• isolation

• insecure attachment

What type of development do developmental psychologist study?

• physical

• social

• cognitive

• all of the above

An environmental agent that could cause birth defects or other developmental delays.

• Teratogens

• Epigenetics

• Carcinogens

• Parabens

Children, who in infancy formed secure attachments to their parents, are more likely than other children to:

• Prefer the company of adults to that of other children
• Become permissive parents
• Show a willingness to explore

• Be less achievement oriented

This type of parent(s) is totally uninvolved with their child(ren) and does not meet their basic needs.

• Permissive

• Neglectful

• Authoritative

• Authoritarian

Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation is typically used to test young children’s

• isolation

• imprinting

• critical period

• attachment

According to Diana Baumrind, which of the following is a parenting style that, among children raised in the United States, is most closely associated with the development of self-reliance and confidence?

• Authoritarian

• Authoritative

• Permissive

• Neglectful