DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
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the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age.
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a person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stranger anxiety is manifested by crying when an unfamiliar person approaches. It is normal when it starts at about 8 to 9 months and usually abates by age 2 years. Stranger anxiety is linked with the infant’s developmental task of distinguishing the familiar from the unfamiliar.
Detailed explanation-2: -The symptoms of stranger anxiety can take many forms; some infants will become very quiet and will stare warily at a stranger, others will cry intensely, and a toddler may try to hide behind a parent standing nearby.
Detailed explanation-3: -stranger anxiety. the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beggining by about 8 months of age. attachment.
Detailed explanation-4: -Fear of strangers starts at 5-6 months and usually becomes more intense at 7-10 months of age. It can last a few months or continue for much longer. It often decreases somewhere between 18 months and 2 years, but it can last longer depending on a child’s temperament.
Detailed explanation-5: -Stranger anxiety usually begins around 8 or 9 months of age and typically lasts into the 2nd year. Also called fear of strangers. See also separation anxiety; xenophobia.