PSYC 140 Module3 Lockdown Exam & Full
Review | 2025 Updated Version | Portage
Learning
1. Why is it important for parents to understand infant sleeping and crying?
ANS Knowledge of typical patterns of sleeping and crying can help parents understand
their own emotions and help to reduce frustration at a crying baby to avoid shaken baby
syndrome.
2. Insecure resistant is caused by this type of caregiving.
ANS Inconsistent and unreliable caregiving, kid can't tell when they will receive love or
when they will be neglected.
3. True or false, infants are left alone during the second separation phase of the strange
situation.
ANS True
4. What does proximodistal mean?
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,ANS Proximo means near and distal means far away.
5. Object permanence.
ANS Understanding that an object will still exist even if it is out of sight.
6. True or false, early in life infants have far more neural connections than they need.
ANS True
7. Episode 6.
ANS Mother leaves again - child is alone again.
8. According to Piaget, the first substage of the sensorimotor stage is.
ANS Simple reflexes
9. Socioemotional development in infancy.
ANS The social and emotional changes that an individual goes through.
10. Benefits of touching infants.
ANS Needed for early brain development and physical growth, touch releases endorphins
to help stop pain and increase calmness.
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, 11. Insecure avoidant caregiving.
ANS Caregivers do not respond to child seeking comfort in times of distress. They are
consistently insensitive or unresponsive to their emotional needs.
12. Percentage of infants with resistant attachment style.
ANS 15%
13. 3 attachment types identified by Ainsworth.
ANS Secure attachment, insecure avoidant, insecure resistant or ambivalent
14. True or false, gross motor skills generally develop before fine motor skills.
ANS True
15. Ways of soothing a baby (5 S's).
ANS Swaddling, side/stomach position in parent's arms, swinging, shushing sounds,
sucking
16. Slow to warm up children.
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Review | 2025 Updated Version | Portage
Learning
1. Why is it important for parents to understand infant sleeping and crying?
ANS Knowledge of typical patterns of sleeping and crying can help parents understand
their own emotions and help to reduce frustration at a crying baby to avoid shaken baby
syndrome.
2. Insecure resistant is caused by this type of caregiving.
ANS Inconsistent and unreliable caregiving, kid can't tell when they will receive love or
when they will be neglected.
3. True or false, infants are left alone during the second separation phase of the strange
situation.
ANS True
4. What does proximodistal mean?
1
,ANS Proximo means near and distal means far away.
5. Object permanence.
ANS Understanding that an object will still exist even if it is out of sight.
6. True or false, early in life infants have far more neural connections than they need.
ANS True
7. Episode 6.
ANS Mother leaves again - child is alone again.
8. According to Piaget, the first substage of the sensorimotor stage is.
ANS Simple reflexes
9. Socioemotional development in infancy.
ANS The social and emotional changes that an individual goes through.
10. Benefits of touching infants.
ANS Needed for early brain development and physical growth, touch releases endorphins
to help stop pain and increase calmness.
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, 11. Insecure avoidant caregiving.
ANS Caregivers do not respond to child seeking comfort in times of distress. They are
consistently insensitive or unresponsive to their emotional needs.
12. Percentage of infants with resistant attachment style.
ANS 15%
13. 3 attachment types identified by Ainsworth.
ANS Secure attachment, insecure avoidant, insecure resistant or ambivalent
14. True or false, gross motor skills generally develop before fine motor skills.
ANS True
15. Ways of soothing a baby (5 S's).
ANS Swaddling, side/stomach position in parent's arms, swinging, shushing sounds,
sucking
16. Slow to warm up children.
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