Describe the process of social coordination between caregiver and baby in the first 3 to 4 months.

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1. In the first six weeks, infants signal their needs but do not engage in much social coordination.
2. At 6 to 8 weeks, the social smile emerges and infants and parents exchange emotional expressions.
3. Infants expect adults to respond to their overtures and become upset if they do not.

Psychology

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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a. obedience. b. submission. c. conformity d. compliance. e. infatuation.

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Most vivid dreams occur during __________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word.

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Jennifer has learned to voluntarily relax by using the tension-release procedure. She now is practicing relaxing to each item on a hierarchy related to a situation she finds frightening. Jennifer is using

a. covert sensitization. b. covert reinforcement. c. self-directed desensitization. d. thought-stopping.

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