Author Question: Discuss how newborn and caregiver characteristics interact to promote healthy development. What ... (Read 89 times)

mrsjacobs44 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Discuss how newborn and caregiver characteristics interact to promote healthy development.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

A psychologist notices that a male client rarely makes eye contact and pulls at his ear when he seems nervous. What type of assessment is the most likely psychologist performing?

a. observation c. structured interviewing
b. projective testing d. controlled testing

parshano · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Newborn characteristics inborn individual differences based on genetics, neurophysiology, and coordination of physiological and psychological processes; effortful control, arousal, and emotion (both too much and too life) affect how a child experiences the world
Caregiver characteristics sensitive caregiving in response to an infant's unique temperament, etc., affect both the caregiver and the infant; caregiver affects regulation by how they respond to a child's needs (feeding, comforting, soothing); also impacts infant's personality based on their beliefs about how emotions are expressed which can be based on gender and culture
Child and caregiver characteristics affect each other in dynamic and critical ways

Answer to Question 2

A