According to Elkind and others, what are some of the benefits of a shared family meal?
What will be an ideal response?
Some of the benefits include quiet refuge, regularity, togetherness, conversation, children feeling important to
parents, and the intellectual exchange which predicts learning and reading skills.
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By what age do infants develop a preference for salty tastes?
A) within a few days after birth B) by four months C) at birth D) within a year after birth
In saying that attitudes serve a value expressive function, we mean:
a. they help us to maximize gains and minimize cost b. they enable us to make a sense of our world c. they prevent us from undue influences of values from other cultures d. they help to reinforce specific behaviours e. they enable us to demonstrate our uniqueness
A mother who is searching for an explanation for the increased aggression in her six-year-old child would be advised by social learning theorists that such aggression is
a. a part of human nature and therefore inevitable. b. a well-known developmental stage according to psychosocial theory. c. probably an imitation of a model to which her child has been exposed. d. part of a general syndrome of pathological behavior that may have a biological cause.
What would information processing theorists call the steps a child goes through to get dressed
such as put on shirt and pull down, put on pants, then put on socks and shoes? a. Metacognition b. Metamemory c. Schemes d. Scripts