Exam 4: Attachment: Forming Close Relationships

When 4-year olds who lived their first year in an orphanage before being adopted were compared with 4-year-olds who had been raised at home:

Describe the links between attachment classification and right and left hemispheric responding

The hormone that increases when an infant experiences warm physical contact with a familiar person is called the "cuddle hormone" or:

Psychoanalytic explanations for attachment were important because they drew attention to the importance of early contact between mother and infant

The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development found support for the:

The early research on maternal bonding overestimated its effects because it was based on poor measures of responsivity

Piaget believed that object permanence would emerge sometime during the first year of the infant's life

What are the consequences of having an insecure attachment to the mother in infancy?

The two theoretical dimensions used to assess attachment in addition to the four attachment types are:

Is there cross-generational continuity in attachment? Discuss the evidence in support of your answer.

Changes in attachment can go either way, but it is more common for secure children to become insecure

Factors associated with a secure attachment include:

Researchers have found that at age 19 adolescents with a history of secure attachments are more likely to have:

What do we call the feeling of closeness a mother has to her infant, perhaps influenced by postnatal contact:

Controversies regarding Bowlby's theory include:

In hunter-gatherer societies where men and women work together to search for food and other necessities, mothers are not the primary caregivers as they tend to be in industrialized countries

Securely attached children are, in part, protected from changes in parenting quality

In the "Strange Situation Procedure" the mother returns after a brief separation and is reunited with her 1-year-old. Briefly describe how the infant might respond to this reunion for each of the four attachment types.

A study of infant attachment among 60 two-parent working-class families in Scotland found that the number of infants who formed a specific attachment to their mother during the first year of life was:

The established link between parent sensitivity and secure attachment is true: