What are two reasons for the increase in emotional regulation that occurs in toddlerhood?
What will be an ideal response?
-Toddlers have learned coping behaviors that help them to regulate their emotions, such as sucking their thumb when they are anxious or finding a trusted adult who will cuddle with them.
-Toddlers also develop secondary (sociomoral) emotions such as guilt, shame, or embarrassment that motivate them to do what is right and also to avoid engaging in behaviors that will get them in trouble.
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A good operational definition of aggression might be:
a. behavior intended to harm someone or something b. a violent response most often accompanying frustration or anger directed toward someone c. the number of times someone hits, kicks, or yells at a person or an object within a 1-hour period d. a personality characteristic in which the individual tends to solve problems with violence
According to the article Coming of Age about the timing of puberty and adolescent behavior, early maturing males and females were both more likely than their same sex peers to have higher levels of:
(a) sexual experience, but not delinquency (b) delinquency but not sexual experience (c) sexual experience and delinquency (d) neither sexual experience or delinquency
Because of the difficulties preterm infants experience at birth, regardless of what kind of special care they receive, they never develop normally in the long run
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Sexual variants illustrate a theme in abnormal psychology better than any other category of disorder. Which theme?
a. The importance of stressors as the cause of disorder b. The impact of disorder on one's occupational and social adjustment c. The difficulty in defining the boundaries of normal and abnormal d. The role of neurotransmitters in controlling thought and behavior