Exam 4: Attachment: Forming Close Relationships

The hormone that increases when an infant recognizes a familiar person:

Birds and other infrahuman animals develop a preference for the person or object to which they are first exposed during a brief, critical period after birth.This is referred to as:

The understanding that objects, including people, have a continuous existence apart from the baby's own interactions with them:

In cultures where babies are treated very differently from how they are in the U.S., if the Strange Situation and the Attachment Q-Set do not agree, researchers should use the Attachment Q-Set

Babies who seem not to be bothered by their mother's brief absences but turn away, increase distance, or pay her no attention when she returns, and sometimes become visibly upset have:

Which theorist is noted for the ethological approach to attachment?

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

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

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

The degree to which attachment style and social behaviors influence each other over time has been described as "interactive synchrony"

Which of the following best describes the relation between infants' temperament characteristics and attachment relationships?

Children with an insecure-ambivalent attachments do not leave their mother during the Strange Situation because:

Children from which countries will, on average, be classified as more avoidant than U.S.children in the Strange Situation:

The central point of more recent learning theory-based perspectives on attachment which suggests that attachment results from satisfying interactions over time with responsive adults:

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

A study of infant attachment among 60 two-parent working-class families in Scotland found that the number of infants who formed a secondary attachment to a grandparent during the first 18 months of life was:

The psychoanalytic explanation for attachment is incorrect because:

The theory that children's attachment histories modify how they perceive and react to changes in their family environment is:

The phase of attachment that is characterized by indiscriminate social responsiveness:

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