Exam 5: Entering the Social World: Socioemotional Development in Infancy and

Three-year-old Maxim is playing with his toys happily as his mother is watching a movie. He looks up to see a few tears running down his mother's cheeks, because a sad scene just occurred in the film. He puts down his toys, climbs up next to his mother, and lays his head on her arm. When she asks him what's wrong, he says, "I'm sad, Mommy." Maxim has demonstrated the capacity to experience

LaTanya is only two years old, and recently she has begun playing with an imaginary friend whom she has named Bonnie. LaTanya's parents wonder why this is occurring, as LaTanya has two older siblings and often has play dates with other children her own age. What would you advise her parents?

One-year-old Mathieu is afraid of the dog because he saw his father react with fear to the same dog. Which term BEST explains why Mathieu is afraid?

A full understanding of one's gender begins by understanding that gender does not change over time.

When one's actions or remarks support others and sustain interactions, they can be described as engaging in ________ exchange.

Giselle is three weeks old and during a diaper change she looks up at her mother and smiles. Her mother gets very excited and immediately tells her husband, Chin, what happened. Since Chin has read your textbook, he thinks to himself:

According to your authors, children who engage in make-believe play tend to be more advanced in several areas. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Baby Hughie has singled out his mother as someone different from all others. When his mother takes him to a new place, Hughie is able to explore but looks back to his mother every once in a while for reassurance. He also cries when he is separated from his mother for more than a minute or two. According to Bowlby, Hughie is most likely in the ____ phase of attachment.

Phil and Lil are both playing with dolls in the same room. Use them in examples of parallel, simple social, and cooperative play.

Evidence supporting the idea that prosocial behavior may be genetically wired into human beings is supported by the fact that children as young as ________ months of age will try to comfort an adult when they perceive that the adult is hurt or upset.

An individual's sense of themselves as male or female is their ________.

According to Erikson, the first three stages of psychosocial development involve the crises of basic trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, and initiative vs. guilt.

Full understanding of gender is said to develop gradually in three stages. Which of the following represents the correct chronological order in which those stages develop?

When Delia and her mother are out shopping, they watch as another shopper accidentally drops her basket of groceries all over the floor. Delia's mother tells her to wait while she assists the lady, and proceeds to help pick up all of the dropped groceries. At school the next day, Delia assists a classmate who dropped her books on the way into class in the same manner. In this case, Delia's mother has helped inspire prosocial behavior through

Anthony and Martina are the new parents of a new baby named Zoe and are wondering whether Zoe will attach to them. A developmental psychologist explains to them that if Zoe is a typical baby, she will

Full understanding of gender is said to develop gradually in three stages. They include all but which of the following?

Results from the Family Lifestyles Project indicate that children raised by counterculture parents are different from children raised by parents with more traditional values in that

Many different factors contribute to the nature of attachment relationships between children and their parents. Undoubtedly, the most important factor is

Which of the following is a central defining characteristic of the basic emotions?

Dalton is a six-month-old baby who is watching the faces of his parents and their friends as they sit around the dinner table. From his mother's arms, he has a good view of each diner's expression. Which dinner guest would probably draw the most of Dalton's attention?