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Human Development: Updated, 7/e
James Vander Zanden, Ohio State University
Thomas Crandell, Broome Community College
Corinne Crandell, Broome Community College

Infancy: Emotional and Social Development

Factual Multiple Choice



1

According to Erik Erikson, the development of which of the following is the essential task of infancy?
A)independence
B)a sense of self-worth
C)a basic trust in others
D)the feeling of belonging
2

The physiological changes, subjective experiences, and expressive behaviors that are involved in feelings is termed
A)temperament
B)emotion
C)self-esteem
D)social referencing
3

Child neglect is best defined as
A)an intentional physical attack on a child by the parent
B)an injury that is purposely inflicted on the child by the parent
C)the absence of adequate social, emotional, and physical care
D)severe injuries associated with physical abuse of children
4

Studies of parents who abuse their children reveal that the parents
A)expect very little from their children
B)are exclusively from lower socioeconomic levels
C)were themselves abused as children
D)usually suffer from severe psychotic tendencies, untreatable through counseling
5

The practice whereby an inexperienced person relies on a more experienced person's interpretation of an event to regulate his or her subsequent behavior is
A)accommodation
B)modeling
C)imprinting
D)social referencing
6

Which of the following statements is the most accurate according to Izard's differential emotions theory?
A)All the basic emotions are in place at birth.
B)At birth, the inner feelings of babies are limited to shyness, contempt, and guilt.
C)Emotions are not preprogrammed on a biological clock.
D)Each emotion has its own distinctive facial pattern.
7

Izard has found that infants normally express shyness as well as self-awareness
A)shortly after birth
B)around 4 to 6 weeks of age
C)around 6 to 8 months of age
D)by about their first birthday
8

According to Stanley and Nancy Greenspan's stage theory, infants develop intentional communication with the important people of their lives when they are operating at which stage?
A)second
B)third
C)fourth
D)fifth
9

The relatively consistent, basic dispositions inherent in people that underlie and modulate much of their behavior are referred to as
A)temperament
B)attachment
C)person permanence
D)emotion
10

The attachment behavioral system does the following
A)encourages youngsters to avoid people
B)leads to maintaining proximal contact with adults
C)gives the child feelings of security to explore
D)encourages interaction with others after initial wariness subsides
11

According to Thomas's categories of temperament, a baby that has a low activity level, adapts very slowly, and tends to be withdrawn would be classified as a(n) ________ baby.
A)difficult
B)easy
C)slow-to-warm-up
D)passive
12

Thomas refers to the match between the characteristics of infants and their families as
A)temperament
B)attachment
C)social bonding
D)goodness of fit
13

A major finding about temperament and child-rearing practices is
A)children are active agents in their own socialization process
B)parents are the product of the children they are trying to rear
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
14

The affectional bond that one individual forms for another and that endures across time is referred
A)to as
B)attachment
C)temperament
D)person permanence
E)social referencing
15

Which of the following is identified as an indicator of specific attachment in infants (the 3rd stage of attachment)?
A)separation distress
B)bonding
C)maternal deprivation
D)developmental psychopathology
16

A child who cries in the presence of unknown people is probably exhibiting
A)neglect
B)object relations anxiety
C)attachment anxiety
D)stranger anxiety
17

The ongoing relationships infants have with mothers, fathers, grandparents, and siblings is called their
A)social framework
B)social network
C)social attachment
D)social permanence
18

Which of the following is not a function of attachment?
A)The child learns to cling to the primary caregiver.
B)The child learns about the world.
C)It provides the child with emotional security.
D)It allows the child to enter into social relationships with other human beings.
19

The ethologist John Bowlby says that attachment behaviors are
A)learned behaviors from one's environment
B)formed from proximity and contact with adults
C)innate biological tendencies ready to be activated
D)reciprocal and derive from a reinforcing relationship with the mother
20

According to learning theories of attachment, the mother is initially a
A)biologically preprogrammed magnet for the child
B)punishing source for the child
C)hindrance to the child's acquisition of gender identity
D)neutral stimulus for the child
21

Research by Ainsworth indicates that
A)there is no correlation between early maternal caregiving and patterns of attachment behavior
B)the avoidant mothers of resistant infants are often inconsistent, insensitive, and rejecting
C)attachment patterns do not vary from culture to culture
D)early attachment behaviors are not indicative of later social and cognitive development
22

Which of the following statements is the least accurate regarding the research on stranger anxiety?
A)It seems to be common among 8-month-old infants.
B)Infants show significantly more "wary" behaviors than their mothers do.
C)It is a developmental milestone that normally occurs in children.
D)Children tend to react to strangers with acceptance.
23

Emotional intelligence includes such abilities as
A)social gratification
B)impulse control
C)excessive stress promotion
D)sensory deprivation
24

Absentee fathers seems to affect
A)girls more than boys
B)boys more than girls
C)girls and boys equally
D)neither boys or girls
25

Current research on the role of the father indicates that
A)men lack the potential to be as good caretakers of children as women
B)fathers are more likely than mothers to hold their babies and look at them
C)fathers smile more at their babies than mothers
D)babies drink less milk when fathers do the bottle feeding than when mothers do
26

Concerning parenting responsibility, which of the following is not a trend that has emerged in the United States over the past thirty years?
A)More children reside in fatherless settings.
B)Fathers are taking a more active role in childcare and household tasks since more women work outside the home.
C)Mothers still provide most of the child care and perform most of the household tasks.
D)Fathers are likely to be "weekend" parents.
27

One of the most consistent findings about a father's absence in the home is
A)girls from fatherless homes exhibit poorer moral judgment
B)deterioration of a boy's school performance
C)deterioration of a daughter's school performance
D)the older the child is when he or she loses the father, the greater the impairment
28

The arrangement in which responsibility for a child's care is dispersed among several people is termed
A)extended caregiving
B)communal parenting
C)multiple parenting
D)multiple mothering
29

Regarding the research on child day-care centers, which statement is most accurate?
A)Day-care children are very different from their home-raised counterparts in regard to their intellectual, social, and emotional development.
B)Day-care children appear to be less attached to their mothers than children raised at home.
C)Most infants with working mothers spend the day in a day-care center.
D)High-quality day care is an acceptable alternative childcare arrangement.