Explain developments in the cognitive, social, and emotional spheres that underlie the emergence of separation and stranger anxiety at about 6-9 months of age
What will be an ideal response?
Improvements in memory allow infants to distinguish familiar with unfamiliar people.
Infants have goals and expectations for social interaction and a stranger may have an unfamiliar way of interacting which upsets the baby.
Infants become able to recognize fear reactions in adults, and these expression attract their attention and they become fearful as well.
Psychology
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a. the smell of a rose b. a strongly bitter taste c. a soft sound d. a pastel painting
Psychology
Horn referred to intellectual abilities that decline with age as
A. "degenerative." B. "vulnerable." C. "neuromuscular." D. "maintained."
Psychology