LearningCurve 3b. Infancy and Childhood

Leanne is 5 months old. Chastity is 8 months old. Dominique is 11 months old. Which infant should show the MOST evidence of stranger anxiety?

Chastity

Yun Hee lives in New York and is concerned about her daughter, who will be 1 year old next week. Her baby is not walking yet, and Yun Hee's family is starting to comment on this. Should she be worried?

No, she should not worry. Only 50 percent of all babies in the United States are walking within a week after their first birthday.

Viv's father demands total obedience from his children. When he speaks, he expects his children to listen. There is no discussion and no arguing. He has zero tolerance for anyone breaking the rules he has decreed. Viv's father has a(n) _____ parenting style.

authoritarian

Two sealed, pyramid-shaped containers contain what are clearly identical amounts of a liquid. However, a child suddenly judges them as holding different amounts of liquid after one container is inverted. The child apparently lacks a concept of _____.

conservation

Rosenzweig and his colleagues provided _____ evidence of the influence of the environment on brain development.

experimental

Which of the following choices pairs a parenting style with the correct description?

negligent, uninvolved

Five-year-old Ling is beginning to show signs of being able to plan ahead in a somewhat rational manner. At her age, this development is likely due to:

neural networks sprouting in her frontal lobes.

A child demonstrates object permanence, egocentrism, and a failure to conserve. She is MOST likely to be in which Piagetian stage?

preoperational

Anatoli and Andrei are 11-month-old identical twins. Anatoli took his first steps yesterday. How soon will Andrei take his first steps?

probably within a day; identical twins generally begin walking on nearly the same day

In Jean Piaget's account of the sensorimotor stage, children acquire a:

sense of object permanence.

A child with anxious attachment will:

show prolonged distress when the mother returns after a brief absence.

Baby June is now 8 months of age. Her mother has noticed that, lately, June has become extremely fearful of unfamiliar people. June is displaying _____ anxiety.

stranger

Based on Harlow's research with monkeys, what is the MOST helpful thing a person can do for a frightened infant or child?

touch or hold her