Exam 10: Emotional Development and Attachment

Four-year-olds were told that they could eat a marshmallow right away, but if they could wait they would get two marshmallows. This experiment was a test of the

When a child is diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, the child

Depression in childhood is ________________, the childhood incidence is ____________ for boys than girls, and in adolescence the gender difference ________________.

When a child is diagnosed with disinhibited social engagement disorder, the child

A boy in the United States who is hurt on the playing field may come off the field feeling very angry because

The cultural norms for when, how, and to whom emotions should, or shouldn't, be shown are known as

When the circumstances of a child's life situation change, there is evidence that

As children become adolescents

The ways we learn to think about emotions are our

In Walter Mischel's "marshmallow test", four-year-olds must wait for a period of time without eating the marshmallow in front of them in order to receive a second marshmallow. What are some long term associations that have been found with this ability to delay gratification in young children?

Multisystemic treatment has been one of the more effective treatments for conduct disorders because

Preschool children think that you only need to feel guilty about something you do if someone else is there to see what happened.

In tasks that require children to resist the temptation to peek at something interesting, boys are less likely to be able to resist temptation.

One of the explanations that has found some support for why the incidence of depression is greater in girls than in boys starting in adolescence is that

Parents who want to protect their children from their feelings and try to distract or cheer up their children so they don't focus on the negative emotions are

A suggestion for parents of children with a difficult temperament would be to

The difference between oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorders is that

Conduct disorders are difficult to treat, but one treatment that has shown some promise for these families is

What is temperament? Describe Chess and Thomas's three types of infant temperament. Compare these types to Rothbart's three types of infant temperament.

Which ethnic group has the highest rate of suicide fatalities?