Exam 4: Attachment: Forming Close Relationships

Infants who are classified as insecurely attached:

People's mental representations of themselves in childhood, their parents, and the nature of their interactions with their parents are referred to as:

This theory of attachment development highlights the gratification of instinctual drives like the infant's desire for oral stimulation:

Rank the types of attachment relationships observed among U.S.infants from most frequent to least frequent:

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

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

Aspects of maternal behavior that promote a child's development of a secure attachment include:

A child is more likely to have a secure attachment when parents have a happy marriage

The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development found that:

The central point of Harlow's experiments with "surrogate mothers" was that:

Cognitive developmental theory:

Adults who find it difficult to trust their romantic partners are likely to have relationships that are:

Which of the following is not usually a barrier for attachment formation when the mother is in prison:

Babies who tend to become very upset at the departure of the mother and exhibit inconsistent behaviors upon the mothers return (e.g., seeking contact with the mother and then angrily pushing her away)have:

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

Israeli children who live in communal villages called kibbutzim, especially if they regularly sleep there overnight, are less likely to show:

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

Which alternative to the Strange Situation provides as output the same four-category classification of secure, insecure-ambivalent, insecure-avoidant, and insecure-disorganized:

The ideas of "extreme early effects" and "mediating effects" are alternatives for explaining:

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