Exam 7: Seciton 4: the First Two Years: Psychosocial Development

In-home day care is always preferable to out-of-home day care.

Parents in North America are more likely to encourage their children to feel humility and shame than parents in Asia.

Infants of depressed mothers are still better off staying home with their mothers than being sent to other caregiving situations.

An insecure attachment in infancy means that the child is destined for lifelong problems with relationships.

Like Freud, Erikson argued that problems and conflicts that arise in early childhood could adversely affect one's adult personality.

When a father makes a silly face and his infant widens her eyes in surprise, there is evidence of synchrony.

An 11-month-old baby is likely to display both fear of strangers and separation anxiety.

According to the results of cross-cultural research, distal parenting often results in toddlers who are self-aware but less obedient than those whose parents engage in proximal parenting.

Mothers are better than fathers at reading their infants' emotions and responding with synchrony.

Proximity-seeking and contact-maintaining attachment behaviors have been crucial to the survival of the species.

Attachment develops in infancy and then wanes over time.

Social learning is achieved by observing others.

The difficulty in distinguishing distinct emotions in early infancy is probably due to brain immaturity.

A securely attached infant is unlikely to explore an unfamiliar environment when his or her mother is present.