Baby Brenda Is an Anxious, Emotionally Reactive Child with a Reduced

Multiple Choice

Baby Brenda is an anxious, emotionally reactive child with a reduced capacity for regulating emotion. Brenda's inability to learn to calm herself may be a result of parents who

A) do not intervene when she is agitated, but rather let her "tough it out" on her own.
B) wait to intervene until she has become extremely agitated.
C) read and respond contingently and sympathetically to her emotional cues.
D) attempt to intervene before she becomes agitated in any way.