Why are eating disorders in infants and young children often considered symptomatic of a problem in the mother–child relationship?
What will be an ideal response?
A prominent controversy concerns the significance of emotional deprivation (lack of love) and malnutrition (lack of food), especially for failure to thrive. Investigators have argued that the infant with FTT, for example, has been deprived of maternal stimulation and love, which results in emotional misery, developmental delays, and eventually, physiological changes. In one study, mothers of infants diagnosed with FTT were found to be more insecurely attached than mothers of normal infants. These mothers also were more passive and confused and either became intensely angry when discussing past and current attachment relationships or dismissed the attachments as unimportant and non-influential (Benoit, Zeanah, & Barton, 1989). Children who have suffered from FTT as a result of early abuse exhibit poorer outcomes 20 years later than children whose failure to thrive resulted from neglect, lack of parenting, or feeding difficulties (Iwaniec, Sheddon, & Allen, 2003).
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Research supports that women with higher levels of oxytocin in their bodies:
a. bond better with their babies. b. engaged in less affiliative and nurturing behaviors. c. decreases their relaxation. d. makes them spend less time with their friends to ensure an optimal coping response.
The id is that part of the personality which operates according to the:
a. pleasure principle. b. superego. c. rules of reality. d. past experiences of the individual.
The practice of physiognomy, as well as that of phrenology,
have been summarily discredited by modern scientific research. As it turns out, the bumps on a person's head and one's facial characteristics give virtually no information about their personality characteristics. This is an important reminder of the importance of the critical thinking principle of A) falsifiability. B) correlation versus causation. C) extraordinary claims. D) ruling out rival hypotheses.
You have worked at the same job for five years and always drive home using the same route. A new street is built that would shorten your trip but you continue to use the same route. What problem-solving block are you experiencing?
a) set effect b) heuristic blindness c) functional fixedness d) subgoal representation