Chapter 7 Learning Goals

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

  • Understand how infants experience emotions.
  • Explain stranger anxiety and separation anxiety.
  • Describe smiling in infancy and infants' abilities to understand others' facial and vocal expressions.
  • Define and explain social referencing.
  • Understand the development of self in infancy.
  • Describe children's theory of mind.
  • Define attachment and how it is measured.
  • Understand how attachment is developed.
  • Explain how culture affects attachment.
  • Understand the processes that underlie the development of relationships during infancy.
  • Describe how sociable infants are with other children.
  • Explain Erikson's theory of personality development in infancy.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of temperament.
  • Explain gender and its influence on development.
 

 

 

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