Chapter 10 final exam questions

Question 1

Modern theories emphasize the ______ value of emotion

Answer 1

Functional

Question 2

Basic emotions

Answer 2

Involve a subjective feeling

Question 3

Which of the following is a basic emotion?

Answer 3

Happiness

Question 4

Basic emotions consist of a subjective feeling, an overt behaviour, and

Answer 4

Physiological change

Question 5

Researchers often use _______ to assess an infant’s emotional state

Answer 5

Facial expressions

Question 6

Social smiles typically first appear at

Answer 6

Two to three months of age

Question 7

A social smile typically occurs when an infant

Answer 7

Sees another person

Question 8

One of the first signs of fear in an infant often occurs when

Answer 8

Infants are in the presence of an unfamiliar adult

Question 9

Stranger wariness is a sign of

Answer 9

Fear

Question 10

Stranger wariness

Answer 10

Provides a natural restraint against the tendency for mobile infants to wander away from
familiar caregivers

Question 11

Complex emotions

Answer 11

Emerge before basic emotion

Question 12

Unlike basic emotions, complex emotions

Answer 12

Are triggered by different events in different cultures

Question 13

In social referencing

Answer 13

Infants use their parents’ facial expressions to help them interpret unfamiliar situations

Question 14

The ability to recognize others’ emotions

Answer 14

Is important in social referencing

Question 15

Culturally specific standards for appropriate expressions of emotion in a particular setting or
with a particular person or persons are known as

Answer 15

Display rules

Question 16

An infant’s consistent mood and style of behaviour is called

Answer 16

Temperament

Question 17

Temperament is defined as

Answer 17

The ease with which an infant adjusts to changes in the environment

Question 18

Temperament from infancy to childhood is

Answer 18

Somewhat stable

Question 19

Shy, inhibited children

Answer 19

Are likely to have difficulty interacting with other children

Question 20

Infants usually form attachments

Answer 20

Only to mothers

Question 21

_______ is used to study attachment relationships

Answer 21

The Strange Situation

Question 22

Children who had secure attachments as infants

Answer 22

Tend to have more satisfying later social relationships

Question 23

A secure attachment is most likely to occur when

Answer 23

Parents are sensitive and responsive to their baby