Infants Often Show Distress at Being Separated from Their Primary

question 234

Multiple Choice

Infants often show distress at being separated from their primary caregiver:

• A) around 7-8 months because by then they have a strong attachment to their primary caregiver
• B) around 4-6 months of age when they develop a sense of self-awareness
• C) immediately after birth as they have become attached in utero to their mother
• D) around 2-3 months of age before they have developed adequate schemas for strangers and nonstrangers

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Definitions:

Arousal Theory

A theory in psychology that suggests there is an optimal level of arousal for each individual that leads to the best performance on tasks; too little or too much arousal can decrease performance.

Equipotentiality Theory

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Effortful Processing

A type of information processing that requires a significant amount of attention and conscious effort in order to encode information into memory.

Automatic Processing

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