Anine-month-old infant sees his mom leave a room and begins crying. why is he crying? a. he feels abandoned b. he thinks his mom is gone for good. c. he is indicating he is scared. d. choices a and b.

The answer is (D) Choices A and B. Both answer ‘(A) He feels abandoned’ and ‘(B) He thinks his mom is gone for good’ are correct.  

What the nine-month-old infant experiences is called separation anxiety. Separation anxiety is the fear that a child feels when he or she thinks that the primary caretaker that they have an attachment to is going to leave them.

The infant thinks that his mom is going to leave him, and thus he expresses his distress by crying.

Option (D)

Explanation:

In the above given condition, the child experiences the separation anxiety, due to which the 9 year old infant is crying.

The separation anxiety usually refers to the condition, when an infant has the fear or worries about get separated from his/her parents or caretaker. This is helpful to an infant in some way, as it enables a child to build up and understand a relationship that he/she shares with a person and also allows him/her to adjust and master their surrounding environment.

Thus, the baby feels that he is being abandoned and his mom has gone for some work.

the correct answer is option (D).