When infants look to their parents to determine their own emotions in ambiguous situations, they are using
A) social referencing.
B) self-conscious emotions.
C) mutual gaze.
D) coordinated imitation.
A) social referencing. Social referencing is the tendency of infants and children to look for emotional cues from parents and other caregivers to get information in uncertain situations.
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lead to aggression, and he is delusional. What advice would you give to the novelist? a. The symptoms that you describe are rarely seen in adults in this country. b. You have accurately described paranoid personality disorder, except that the disorder does not involve delusions. c. Your description does not seem to meet the criteria of any of the disorders found in DSM. d. You have captured the essence of a series of disorders that tend to be comorbid and untreatable.
According to socioemotional selectivity theory, younger adults are generally oriented towards acquiring information useful to them in the future, and older adults are generally oriented towards information that:
A) increases their understanding of the past. B) gives them satisfaction in the present. C) is relevant to their work. D) validates the role they previously played in society.
Imagination is considered a facet of __________.
A. agreeableness B. conscientiousness C. extraversion D. openness to experience
The fact that a fearful child may become more anxious when disciplined than a fearless child best demonstrates how the factor of _____ can impact moral development.
A. vicarious consequences B. temperament C. observational learning D. unconscious desires