Infants Who Are Unable to Predict How Their Parents Will

question 75

Multiple Choice

Infants who are unable to predict how their parents will react to their cries for care and attention are especially likely to show signs of

• A) egocentrism.
• B) conservation.
• C) insecure attachment.
• D) assimilation.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variation of a set of data points from their mean.

Variance

A measure of how much the values in a dataset vary or deviate from the mean, technically the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Coefficient of Variation

A normalized measure of the dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution, often expressed as a percentage.

Standard Deviation

A metric that quantifies the spread of a dataset around its mean, computed as the square root of the variance.