Exam 10: Emotional Development, Temperament, and Attachment

Describe Harry Harlow's primate study on the importance of feeding for the formation of attachment, and summarize the main conclusions from that research.

Freud's psychoanalytic theory predicts that mothers who feed babies generously will receive strong attachment. Research results on this topic

The child's social referencing first becomes evident by the early age of about

An excellent predictor of future positive outcomes in development is the

Identify six aspects of caregiving that promote secure attachment relationships between an infant and his or her caregivers.

Briefly describe how culture affects temperament.

Identify the correct developmental sequence of the phases of primary attachments, from earliest to last:

In Kagan's research, infants who were high on behavioral inhibition reacted in which of the following ways to novel stimuli?

Which of these infant features or actions is LEAST prone to promote close bonds in the parent toward the child?

A child brought to a children's shelter shows many signs of disorganized/disoriented attachment. It seems that the girl may have experienced experienced

How does the impact of a shy temperament vary depending on cultural context?

Mary Ainsworth's "strange situation"

Infants who construct positive working models of themselves and others are likely to have a(n) ____ attachment style.

Explain how different components of emotional competence are linked to children's emerging social abilities at different ages.

A Czechoslovakian study reported that unwanted babies whose mothers sought unsuccessfully to abort their pregnancy

Outline the learning theory of attachment formation.

Identify four phases that infants pass through while they develop an attachment to their parents.

Contrast the typical explanation a preschooler would offer for a playmate's emotional display with the type of explanation a grade-schooler would provide.

Kochanska's integrative theory of attachment states that attachment depends on the

Research into emotional competence found that children who expressed mostly positive emotions were generally