What Did the "Still Face" Paradigm Demonstrate with 5-Month-Old Infants

question 25

Multiple Choice

What did the "still face" paradigm demonstrate with 5-month-old infants?

• A)Infants can understand the emotional mirroring that adults provide.
• B)Infants can suppress the expression of emotion when motivated to do so.
• C)Infants cannot impact the social environments around them.
• D)Infants have not yet developed a sense of social agency.

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Definitions:

Freud

An Austrian neurologist named Sigmund Freud established the practice of psychoanalysis, which is a technique for treating mental illnesses by facilitating dialogue between a psychoanalyst and a patient.

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies brought into play by individuals or the ego to cope with reality and to maintain self-image by reducing anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.

Repression

A psychological process in which traumatic memories are buried in the unconscious.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.