Development Through Life: A Psychosocial Approach: Infancy-Development Through Life (first 24 mo) Chapter 6 Flashcards

Babies naturally know how to crawl. They do it without practice as soon as you put them down on the floor. (True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Babies cannot hear in utero.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Newborns can differentiate sweet, sour, bitter, and salty tastes.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

A normative sequence of motor development is grasping, sitting, crawling, walking, and standing.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

A child's threshold for arousal which could be evidenced at the psychological, emotion, or motor level is called reactive-regulation. (True or False-if False correct answer is given)

A child's self-regulator capacities, or behavioral inhibition, may range from bold to brazen to inhibited and cautious. (True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Children react differently in a variety of situations, thus revealing that child temperament is a complex picture of the interaction of child and environment characteristics. (True or False-if False correct answer is given)

The ability to crawl has no relevance to the development of attachment. (True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Stranger anxiety is considered to be a normal development behavior that demonstrates a child's growing preference for the object of attachment.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Once an attachment has been formed, children become less and less comfortable about separating from the object of attachment.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

In the United States, about two-thirds of the mother-infant dyads who have been evaluated in the Strange Situation show evidence of an anxious-avoidant attachment.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

The exploratory behavior of babies who show an anxious-resistant attachment is noticeably disrupted by the caregiver's departure.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

The kinds of quality of relationships in the first six months of life have no relevance in the formation of attachments.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Cross-cultured research on infant attachment supports that there is little variation in parent-child interactions across racial and ethnic groups.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

According to Piaget, reflexes are the built-in, genetic origins of intelligence.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Categorization requires the ability to name objects.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

According to Piaget, sensorimotor adaptation is the chief mechanism governing the growth of intelligence during infancy.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Adults have measurable emotional reactions to infant crying including changes in heart rate and breathing which indicate that the cry serves as a stressor. (True or False-if False correct answer is given)

In the first 2 years of life, infants have states of arousal but no true expression of emotions. (True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Emotions provide a way for adults to assess an infants inner state.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Infant reflexes, such as the startle response provide a biological basis for mistrust.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

One way newborns reduce the intensity of distress is by turning their heads away.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

In normal mother-infant dyads, communication becomes increasingly mismatched as the baby matures.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

In the intervention study that focused on distressed mother-infant dyads at risk for attachment disturbances, it was found that it was not possible to repair these attachment relationships.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Fathers tend to view their infants as less cognitively and socially competent than mothers do.(True or False-if False correct answer is given)

Strategies for dealing with intense emotions

Rhythmic, well-times, appropriately responsive interactions

A time of maximum sensitivity to or readiness for the development of a particular skill or behavior pattern

A strong, affectionate bond that develops between infants and their caregivers

The ability of two people to meet each other's needs and share each other's concerns and feelings

Feelings of fear or sadness associated with the departure of the attachment figure

An emotional sense that the environment is capable of meeting one's basic needs and that one is worthy of the love of others

Relatively stable characteristics of response to environment stimuli, largely under genetic control

The ability of two or more people to know what one other is experiencing

A sense of unpredictability in the environment and suspicion about one's own worth or doubt that one's needs will be met

A scheme acquired during the sensorimotor stage of development in which infants become aware that an object continues to exist when it is hidden or moved from place to place

In Piaget's theory of development , the first stage of cognitive growth during which schema are established on the basis of sensory and motor experiences

Sensory experiences can strengthen certain neural pathways in the infant brain while less used pathways may disappear. This is called________.

Which of the following sensory/motor systems is LEAST well developed in newborns?
-taste
-voluntary motor activity
-vision
-hearing

Which of the following motor skills is NOT acquired during the first year of life?
-standing alone
-running
-rolling over
-crawling

Infants who are inactive and have mild, low-key reactions to new environmental stimuli, are generally negative in mood, and have a hard time adjusting to new situations. They are considered to fall within which temperament category?
-insecure
-difficult
-secure
-slow to warm up

During the second half of the first year, two signs of a child's growing attachment to a specific other person are__________.

One year old Ben often returns to his father repeatedly for a hug when playing with his trucks on the family room floor. Returning to his father shows that Ben is using his father as a_______.

An example of a formed attachment is_______.

Corey actively explores the living room at his aunt's house while his mother is sitting on the couch. When she leaves to get a drink in the kitchen, Corey fusses, but he calms down quickly as soon as she returns. Corey may be best described as having a(n)________attachment.

According to Piaget's theory, what is the primary mechanism underlying the growth of intelligence during infancy?

The first phase in the development of casual schemes in the phase of______.

An example of sensorimotor intelligence is____.

6 month old Ricky discovers that if he lets his spoon drop it will fall to the floor and make a noise. He repeats this for delight. This behavior is________.

__________ is among the earliest emotions expressed in infancy before 6 months of age.

_____________ illustrates how members of a cultural group build a shared view of reality during infancy.

In infancy trust refers to the infant's sense that he or she is ________.

Mistrust may develop if a caregiver is unusably harsh while meeting an infant's needs or if_____________.

________ is a central process for resolving the psychosocial crisis of infancy

A critical period refers to____________.

Within the process of communication the pattern of coordination, mismatch, and repair builds a sense of ________ between the infant and caregiver.

In their parental roles, mothers in the United States tend to emphasize ________ while fathers tend to emphasize ________.