When a caregiver responds appropriately to an infant, and the caregiver and the child's emotional states match, it is called __________.
A. secure attachment
B. ambivalent attachment
C. face-to-face interaction
D. interactional synchrony
Answer: D
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a. diversity of opinion b. independence of thought c. confidence d. diversity of opinion and independence of thought
Kelly is doing research on the effect of birth order on personality. Rather than collecting data on a new set of subjects, she is analyzing hundreds of studies that have already been done on this topic and is going to attempt to come up with an overall estimate of what all these other studies have found. What sort of study is Kelly doing?
a. Experiment b. Meta-analysis c. Correlational d. Longitudinal
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A. are socially pleasant, outgoing, and have good communication skills B. have strong independent streaks that sometimes get them in trouble C. have parents who demonstrate poor parenting skills D. have been brought up in adoptive households
What term is used to describe the shape of a distribution in which the scores pile up on the left-hand side of the graph and taper off to the right?
A) ?symmetrical B) ?positively skewed C) ?negatively skewed D) ?normal