Question

On your lunch break you decide to try a new restaurant that you've been hearing about. Once you are seated, a family with a young infant who looks to be about one year old sits next to you. As you smile at the child, thinking how adorable she is, she breaks into tears, screams, and reaches for her father. You should:Why did this MOST likely happen?

A) The child experiences normal stranger anxiety that is characteristic of thisage.
B) The child has an insecure-anxious attachment pattern.
C) The child experiences normal stranger anxiety that is characteristic of thisage.
D) Because the child is securely attached to her father, she resists other people.
E) The child has learned that strangers are dangerous, and without profound accommodation she will be fearful for life

Answer 1

C) The child experiences normal stranger anxiety that is characteristic of this age.

Step-by-step explanation:

Stranger anxiety: The term "stranger anxiety" is described as the distress that a young child experiences when he or she is being exposed to different people who are not familiar to the child. Henceforth, the child may start experiencing or feeling stranger anxiety till six months of his or her age yet it is generally started between eight to nine months of his or her age.

In the question above, option C is the correct option.