Chapter 1 Terms

Question 1

Alloparents

Answer 1

Is when multiple caregivers are involved in the rearing of children.

Question 2

Chronosystem

Answer 2

The effect of time on various interacting systems that shape a person’s development such as technology.

Question 3

Ethnotheories

Answer 3

Is how a parent believes what is the natural or correct way to raise a child, and culture plays a role in it.

Question 4

Exosystem

Answer 4

Involve links among social systems in which the child does not participate, but that has a direct bearing on parents such as economic, war, and so on.

Question 5

Microsystem

Answer 5

Includes interactions with more people, such as caregivers in childcare settings, and teachers in preschool.

Question 6

Mesosystem

Answer 6

The partnerships between parents and teachers.

Question 7

Insecure-Avoidant Attachment

Answer 7

A child does not show any distress when mother returns and shows little interest when mother returns.

Question 8

Insecure-Resistant/Ambivalent Attachment

Answer 8

Is when the child shows distress when the mother leaves, and approaches the mother when she returns but resist contact and might even push away the parent.

Question 9

Secure Attachment

Answer 9

Is when the child cries when the mother leaves, but is happy when she returns, and uses mother as a secure base to explore.