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Assignment:

1. According to the paper by Belsky (1984), which of the following can help us understand the influence of social support for parenting?

a. Social support is only directly related to parenting behaviour through close social contacts like family and friends

b. Advice from other parents can be supportive or unsupportive depending on the content and values of the parents

c. Employment is unlikely to be a strong influence on parenting

d. Social support is indirectly related to parenting behaviour through social conditioning

2. Drawing on the KidsMatter video about child mental health, if a child was expressing their strong emotions through behaviours such as refusing to comply, poor attention, and aggressive behaviours, these may be symptoms of which of the following?

a. Internalising behaviours

b. Attentional behaviours

c. Externalising behaviours

d. Oppositional conducting behaviours

3. Evidence suggests which of the following about early life attention difficulties in children with Autism?

a. Various attention difficulties/differences are relevant to this condition, but all are specifically related to the social domain

b. Infants' attention is more flexible/less sustained before the first birthday, but then becomes less flexible/more sustained

c. Non-social aspects (i.e., flexible/sustained) of infant attention are stronger predictors of autism than are social aspects

d. Reduced social attention forms part of the diagnostic criteria and can be seen in at-risk infants from birt