Exam 4: Attachment: Forming Close Relationships

As Bowlby argued, the links between early attachment and social outcomes are mediated by:

Bowlby's theory of attachment emphasizes the degree to which:

Secure attachments to parents:

The phase of attachment that is characterized by separation protest and intentional communication is referred to as:

Describe 3 characteristics of parental behavior that are related to the quality of infant-mother attachment

An infant's distress reaction to being separated from the attachment object, usually the mother, which typically peaks at about 15 months of age is called:

Babies who are able to explore novel environments and whose separation distress is effectively and efficiently comforted by their parents after a brief separation have a:

An infant's attachment to one special person, usually the mother, emerges by:

Children who form secure attachments often have parents whose attachment type as measured by the Adult Attachment Interview is described as:

Over 80 percent of abused children form _______ to their caregiver(s):

Continuous measures of attachment do not offer the statistical advantages of the three-type attachment taxonomy

In the largest available studies, the stability of attachment security from infancy to adulthood is characterized as

The Strange Situation Procedure was developed because assessing attachment using naturalistic observations was too time-intensive

This theory of attachment development describes the mother as a secondary drive because she is associated with the relief of hunger:

What role does the feeding situation play in attachment development according to psychoanalytic theory, learning theory, and ethological theory?

Adults who constantly worry about being abandoned are likely to have relationships that are:

According to the psychoanalytic explanation for attachment:

The central point of more recent learning theory-based perspectives on attachment is that attachment:

Factors that can shift a secure attachment to an insecure attachment include the following:

Describe the 4 phases of attachment development described by Bowlby