Exam 5: Infancy: Social, Emotional and Personality Development in a Nutshell

The strength of stimulation necessary to evoke a discernible response is referred to as distractibility.

The results of the National Institute of Child Health and Development (1997) comprehensive investigation found that out- of- home child care had no effect per se on the probability of an infant developing either a secure or an insecure attachment.

The balance of happiness to sadness and moodiness is one of the most important dimensions of infant temperament through the lifespan.

Traditional Aboriginal women in remote communities are more likely to opt for breastfeeding, and tend to breastfeed for longer, than their counterparts in cities and country towns.

Kyrios, et al. (1989) found that parents' cultural background exerted a significant influence on infant temperament.

Russell (2003) found that ___________ percent of Australian fathers are primary caregivers for their children for a significant portion of time each day.

A parents' ___________ is likely to shape their ideas about which patterns of infant temperament are desirable and which undesirable qualities parents should (and could) modify.

According to the findings of Braungart et al. (1992) and Emde et al. (1992), the correlation between dizygotic twins in the temperament domain of emotionality is ___________

According to Young et al. (1999), toddlers who had been highly active and negative in mood at four months were ___________ altruistic and empathic at age two.

Freedman (1974) found that efforts to elicit the Moro reflex ___________ were successful among Aboriginal than Anglo- Australian babies.

When the mother is the primary caregiver who remains at home with the baby full time, and engages in most of the routine comfort- giving activities of feeding, changing, soothing and bathing, some infants attach themselves to their working father first.

Goode et al. (1982) studied parental reactions to the nightly crying of 25 infants in Melbourne. They found which of the following?

Research suggests that early experiences, in the form of the childrearing strategies parents use to soothe, feed and train their young infants, do not shape the growth of personality.

The sound of a ___________ calms the newborn, soothes heart rate, relaxes tense muscles, and diminishes crying more effectively than most other kinds of sound.

Which of the following is related to the uniquely Indigenous parenting value of identification with the land?

Which of the following inherent tendencies that contribute towards later personality are present from birth?

By ___________ months of age, infants typically display a consistent preference to look at a photo of a smiling, rather than an emotionally neutral, stranger.

In terms of the temperament of Australian infants, persistence (or attention span) is best described as:

Freedman (1974) compared a large group of Aboriginal and Anglo- Australian newborns in Darwin. In relation to the temperament dimension of alertness he found:

According to Sroufe (1985) and Lieberman, et al. (1999), securely attached infants generally score higher than their insecurely attached counterparts throughout childhood and adolescence on measures of: