Exam 12: Attachment and Early Parent-Child Care

Which factors, in addition to sensitivity, have not been found as major contributors to attachment security?

An important factor that influences how much men contribute to their offspring is

Which theory would explain that infants love their mothers because their others feed them?

All other things being equal, which of the following is likely to devote the least care to their grandchildren?

Bowlby noted that the one thing that hard-core delinquent boys had in common was

Stability of attachment in infancy usually

During the time when infants show a clear-cut interest in their primary caregivers, usually their mothers, and react with distress when mothers leave them, is referred t by all of the following terms except

Another term for attachment-in-the-making is

A child who becomes especially stressed if his or her mother disappears for a while is referred to as stranger anxiety.

A wise strategy for our ancestral mothers, who lived in times when resources were scarce and survival uncertain, would be to provide the most care to children

In the U.S, all of the following have been associated with the quality of a father's active involvement in the lives of his children except

Which of the following suggests that humans evolved a system of parenting in which mothers shared the responsibility for childcare with others in the family and the larger social group?

In which of the following tests, the more similar the observer's groupings are with an expert's description of prepared statements sorted into categories, the more securely attached the child is?

Behaviorist Watson proposed all of the following except

When an environment is stable and of high quality, the quality of attachment is

Children's working models of their attachment figures and of themselves provide them with a set of expectations for themselves and for their mothers/ caregivers

Which of the following is not a factor in predicting that a mother might not devote adequate time and attention to a child?

Human men are among approximately what percentage of male mammals that invest in their offspring after birth?

All of the following are hypotheses of Bowlby's related to attachment except

The stage at which babies show a clear interest in their primary caregivers, usually their mothers, and react with distress when mothers leave them, particularly in novel situations is