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A baby searches the faces of her parents to see how to respond in unfamiliar situations. This is called _____.


A) separation anxiety
B) social referencing
C) stranger anxiety
D) uncertainty checking

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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Adam is playful, but sometimes moody; fussy but generally tolerant; and sometimes quiet, and other times boisterous. His temperament would be categorized as _____.


A) easy
B) challenging
C) difficult
D) hard-to-classify

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Social interactions are the only foundations for emotional growth.

A) True
B) False

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According to Freud, preventing sucking or weaning too early during infancy may have lasting effects on personality development later.

A) True
B) False

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According to cognitive theory, infants use their early relationships to develop a set of assumptions that become a frame of reference that may be used later in life. Such a set of assumptions is called a _____.


A) referential hypothesis
B) working model
C) schematic plan
D) work-in-progress

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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Which is an essential characteristic of high-quality day care?


A) frequent turnover of staff
B) experienced, professional caregivers
C) a homelike setting
D) a ratio of one adult for each infant

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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Children's realization that they are separate persons with minds, bodies, and behaviors separate from those around them is called _____.

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Which of these emotions is the first to develop in an infant?


A) joy
B) anger
C) pride
D) curiosity

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Sigmund Freud was a(n) _____.


A) ethological theorist
B) behaviorist
C) psychoanalytic theorist
D) humanistic theorist

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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

A) True
B) False

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Psychologists from the _____ school of thought believe that a child's personality is "created" or largely determined by his or her parents.

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Baby Roland wants his bottle, but he can't reach it. He gets angry, his face turns red, and he yells loudly. His anger is a healthy response to his frustration.

A) True
B) False

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In a cross-cultural study examining child-rearing practices, it was demonstrated that toddlers with _____ mothers were more obedient but less self-aware than toddlers with distal mothers.

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How do people become "fixated" in a Freudian stage?


A) They experience excessive emotions.
B) Their normal developmental urges are frustrated.
C) Their mother is not their primary caregiver.
D) They fail to undergo a normal cognitive metamorphosis.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

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The biologically based core of individual differences in style of approach and response to the environment that remains stable across time and situations is what psychologists call _____.

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A child who is fixated in the oral stage may become an adult who _____.


A) eats too much
B) is excessively neat
C) is a homosexual
D) has intense fears

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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A lasting bond between an infant and a caregiver is called _____.


A) synchrony
B) social referencing
C) dependency
D) attachment

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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What are the four categories of temperament suggested by the New York Longitudinal Study?


A) easy, difficult, unregulated, hard-to-classify
B) easy, insurgent, slow-to-warm-up, hard-to-classify
C) easy, difficult, slow-to-warm-up, hard-to-classify
D) mellow, tense, shy, indeterminate

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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The infant's smile that appears whenever mother peeks over the side of the crib and makes a funny face is called a(n) _____ smile.

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One-year-old Jacob follows his mother when she moves about the house and tries to climb up her legs when she is sitting in a chair. He is exhibiting his attachment to her through _____-seeking behavior.

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