Exam 14: A: Infancy and Childhood

Securely attached people exhibit less

Who emphasized that children solve problems and step to higher levels of thinking by relying on inner speech?

The loss of parental attention and care experienced by many orphaned children is likely to put them at increased risk for

Even though Alicia was busy playing when her mother came to pick her up from her baby-sitter, she quickly ran to her mother, gesturing to be held. Alicia most clearly showed signs of

The Harlows' infant monkeys used an artificial cloth mother as a secure base for

Adjusting current schemas to make sense of new information is called

Abused children exhibit ________ to angry faces. As adults they exhibit ________ than normal startle responses.

Current research on cognitive development indicates that

In formulating his theory of psychosocial development, Erikson would have suggested that authoritarian parents are likely to inhibit young children's

Research indicates that most abusive parents report that they themselves were

Children's ability to infer other people's intentions and feelings is indicative of their emerging

Inappropriately aggressive behaviors are more likely to be associated with a child's ________ than with the amount of time the child spends in day care.

Erik Erikson suggested that a sense of basic trust during infancy results from

According to Piaget, assimilation involves

According to Piaget, children in the preoperational stage are able to

The relative lack of neural interconnections in the hippocampus and frontal lobes at the time of birth is most likely to contribute to

Excess neural connections in the brain's association areas are reduced through a process of

Simon Baron-Cohen believes males are more likely than females to develop ASD because

Psychologists describe child rearing in which rules are imposed without explanation as a(n) ________ style.

Children's emerging ability to tease, empathize, and persuade is a sign that they are developing a theory of mind and that they are not completely