An infant acts relatively indifferent to her mother’s presence, does not seem greatly disturbed by her departure, and does not go to her when she returns. This is an example of which type of infant attachment style according to Marry Ainsworth and colleagues?

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1. When someone’s biological sex does not match their gender identity, they may be experiencing which phenomenon?

   A. Transexual identity
   B. Communicative disorder
   C. Sexual dysfunction
   D. Gender identity disorder

2. How does Noam Chomsky explain the rapid and complex acquistion of language in children?

   A. Knowledge of language is modeled from caregivers
   B. Knowledge of language is innate
   C. Knowledge of language is reinforced in school
   D. Knowledge of language is reinforced and practiced with peer groups

3. According to Jean Piaget, what is the first stage of cognitive development, occurring from birth to two years of age?

   A. Sensorimotor stage
   B. Infant cognition stage
   C. Object permanance
   D. Sensory information stage

4. According to Piaget, the preoperational stage refers to the development of which cognitive abilities in children?

   A. Child begins to speak for the first time
   B. Child begins to recognize faces of primary caregivers
   C. Child begins to solve problems logically
   D. Child begins to represent the world symbolically but remains intutive and egocentric

5. At which age can children accurately predict the gender of a person steretypically based on the attributes associated with particular activities?

   A. One year of age
   B. Six years of age
   C. Ten years of age
   D. Two years of age

6. Mentalinguistic awareness refers to which ability in children?

   A. The ability to think and talk about language and its properties
   B. The ability to think and talk about gender and its properties
   C. The ability to read mathematical operations
   D. The ability to speak multiple languages

7. Which of the following statements is true in language development?

   A. In their first few months of life, infants can discriminate among sounds in foreign languages that are not used in their own community
   B. In their first few months of life, infants can only discriminate among sounds in the language of their own community
   C. Towards the end of our teens, we begin to lose our sensitivity to phonetic contrasts in languages other that one(s) we learned as children
   D. Language acquistion is complete by about age 4

8. Language in the form of phonemes of words is typically apparent in children of which age?

   A. Six months
   B. One year
   C. Three months
   D. Two years

9. Which of the statement given below is an accurate assertion in relation to learning about gender?

   A. Children do not segregate by gender in the pre-school years.
   B. It is generally accepted that gender roles are acquired because of our biological pre-programming
   C. By the early pre-school years, most or children know whether they are a boy or girl and can distinguish men from women.
   D. Girls initially tend to be more physically active than boys.

10. Which of the following statements about theory of mind is ?

    A. Theory of mind refers to the understanding that people have mental states that influence our behaviour
    B. Findings from theory of mind studies indicate that pre-schoolers have few problems understanding is an outcome of their mental states.
    C. Mental states include thoughts beliefs, feelings, desires
    D. If you have a theory of mind. you understand that people act according to what they beelieve to the case