After greeting her relatives at the airport, joey's mother leaves him with his grandmother and gets the luggage. eight-month-old joey becomes fearful of the stranger holding him and begins to wail. this distress would be an example of:

This distress would be an example of "separation anxiety".

Children can demonstrate separation anxiety as early as six or seven months, yet for most children it tops between ten to eighteen months and calms down by two years. Most ordinarily, separation anxiety hits when someone leaves their baby to go to work or run an errand or in the given case leaves with a stranger (to the child).