From About the Age of 10-12 Months, Babies Sometimes Look

question 18

Multiple Choice

From about the age of 10-12 months, babies sometimes look to their mother apparently to read her facial expression for signs of encouragement or for signs of anxiety. This is known as:

• A)Bond formation
• B)Attachment
• C)The strange situation
• D)Social referencing
• E)Separation anxiety

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Definitions:

Thalidomide

A drug prescribed for nausea in the 1950s and 1960s by European physicians that was found to cause limb deficiencies or malformations in infants.

Limb Deficiencies

A condition characterized by the absence or malformation of one or more limbs from birth, affecting mobility or the performance of daily activities.

Malformations

Physical deformities or irregularities in the body structure, often present from birth.

Diagnostic Overshadowing

The problem of attributing emotional and behavioural difficulties of people with intellectual disability to the developmental disorder, causing real psychiatric disorders to be missed. The fact is that such people can develop all types of psychiatric disorders, including less common ones.