Wariness and occasional fearful responding on the part of infants in the presence of

strangers is called

a. insecure attachment.
b. stranger anxiety.
c. separation anxiety.
d. responsive anxiety.
e. a strange situation.

b. stranger anxiety.

Psychology

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Patti is passing on a mutated gene on her X chromosome. Why is her son more likely to express the mutation in his phenotype than her daughter is?

a) Males are more likely to inherit the bad copy of a gene whenever there is one. b) Males do not have a second X chromosome that might have a good copy of the gene. c) Estrogen will silence a mutated gene once her daughter experiences puberty. d) Her daughter's Y chromosome will probably have a good copy of that gene to offset the bad one.

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What approach builds on Piaget's research and views cognition as made up of different types of individual skills, while using terminology from information-processing approaches?

a) neo-Piagetian b) information processing c) social-cognitive learning theory d) cognitive perspective

Psychology