Figure Studies

Children with a higher-risk genotype (5-HTTLPR) were

susceptible to parenting quality, good and bad. They displayed little anger when exposed to maternal affection but high anger to maternal insensitivity.

Children with a low-risk genotype were

showing unresponsiveness/ very little response to quality of maternal behavior.

German babies reaction to the Strange Situation

high percentage seem avoidantly attached

Japanese babies reaction to the Strange Situation

high percentage seem resistantly attached

Time that mothers spent caring for their children between the ages of birth and 18

moderately increased

Time fathers devoted to caring for their children between ages of birth and 18

drastically increased

Mothers of urban middle-SES German and East Indian toddlers emphasized autonomous child-rearing goals, which led to

attained mirror self-recognition earlier than toddlers whose mothers emphasized relational child-rearing goals

Mothers who restricted their child’s eating increased their chances of their child being

overweight/obese

Mothers who pressured their child to eat were more likely to have a child who was

underweight

Piaget’s Three-mountains problem

Each mountain is distinguished by it’s own characteristics. Children at the pre-operational stage are unable to select a picture that shows a different perspective of the mountains, they can only select something that reflects their own vantage point.

Children at the pre-operational stage cannot yet

conserve

The more TV watched in childhood and early adolescence

the greater the annual number of aggressive acts committed by the young person

Self-affirmation intervention where students were randomly selected to write essays about how their least important values might be meaningful to someone else

African-American students experiencing. the self-affirmation intervention earned substantially higher grades than the control group.

Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Successful Intelligence

Analytical Intelligence, Creative Intelligence, Practical Intelligence

Hierarchal Structure of Self-esteem in the mid-elementary school years

Academic competence, Social competence, physical/athletic competence, physical appearance

Regardless of whether the child had succeeded or failed at the puzzle task

Chinese mothers were more likely than U.S. mothers to make task-relevant statements aimed at ensuring that the child exerted high effort

Divorce rates among U.S. women by level of education

Increased education level is linked to marital stability, and limited education is linked to divorce, remarriage and subsequent divorce