Harlow's experiments with infant monkeys gave support to the hypothesis that attachments form through

A) food as a reinforcer.
B) imprinting to the first moving object seen by the infant.
C) close contact with a soft, comforting person or thing.
D) oral gratification through feeding.


C) close contact with a soft, comforting person or thing. The critical ingredient in attachment formation is contact comfort.

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B.F. Skinner is most clearly linked with:

a. the structuralist view in psychology b. the behaviorist view in psychology c. the psychoanalytic view in psychology d. the nativist view in psychology

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Overjustification is most likely to occur when

a. Cindy is given a trophy for riding her bicycle. b. Jan is punished for refusing to set the dinner table. c. Marcia is asked out to her senior prom. d. Bobby walks his dog, Tiger. e. Peter receives a trip to Hawaii for being named Salesman of the Year.

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The type of thinking required to solve problems requiring a creative, flexible, or inventive solution is ________ thinking

a. divergent b. functional c. circular d. convergent

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Which of the following U.S. ethnic groups has the lowest rates of physical abuse by an intimate partner?

A) African Americans B) Hispanic Americans C) Caucasians D) Asian Americans

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