According to John Bowlby and theories of attachment, which of the following statements is TRUE:
a. Attachment occurs only to animate objects
b. Abusive parenting prevents attachment between mother and child
c. Children with normal attachment to their parents don't experience a fear of darkness
d. failure to achieve attachment can lead to difficulties with trusting others
e. The terms "bonding" and "attachment" are synonymous
Answer: d. failure to achieve attachment can lead to difficulties with trusting others
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A. behavioral B. psychoanalytic C. client-centered D. rational-emotive
Suppose that you read an article that reports gender differences in aggression in Culture A, but gender similarities in aggression in Culture B. How would the social constructionist perspective explain these results?
a. Evolutionary forces operated differently in the two cultures. b. Each culture creates its own definition of aggression. c. Aggressive behavior is favored by the school system in Culture A, but not in Culture B. d. Both cultures have adopted an essentialist perspective on gender differences.
Someone with a highly reactive behavioural _____ system that enables approach behaviour toward rewards might be expected to show enhancements in the neurotransmitter _____.
A) activation; GABA B) activation; dopamine C) inhibition; GABA D) inhibition; dopamine
For most people, language is
A) housed entirely in the right hemisphere of the cerebral cortex. B) not localized in either hemisphere of the brain, C) housed largely in the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex. D) acquired quickly, without trial and error.