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These questions are taken from the directed questions found in the margins of the chapter. After reading the chapter, you should be able to answer these questions:

13.1 Describe the emotional development of children, including emotional expression, emotional regulation, and temperament.

13.2 Describe social development, including Erikson's stages of psychosocial development.

13.3 Describe imprinting, Harlow's attachment research, and attachment in humans.

13.4 Describe how disruptions in attachment affect psychological development.

13.5 Describe the data relating day care, divorce, and remarriage to psychosocial development.

13.6 Outline parenting styles associated with the most and least positive child outcomes.

13.7 Describe how socialisation shapes children's beliefs about gender.

13.8 Discuss adolescents' search for identity.

13.9 Explain how emotions change during adolescence.

13.10 Discuss the criteria for determining if someone has reached adulthood.

13.11 Describe the three major developmental challenges of adulthood outlined by Erikson.

13.12 Describe research findings on family structure, cohabitation and divorce, and typical changes in marital satisfaction over time.

13.13 Describe the common stages of establishing a career, and describe sex differences in career paths.

13.14 Discuss the evidence for the concept of the midlife crisis and the view that dying people experience a sequence of psychological stages.







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