The primary point of John Bowlby's theory of attachment is that
A) differences in infant attachment lead to differences in adult temperament and
emotionality.
B) attachment behaviors evolved because they increase the chances that infants will survive.
C) infants are instinctively motivated to receive contact comfort from their parents.
D) parents must learn to nurture and comfort their infants by observing their own parents.
B
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a. physical abuse. c. sexual abuse. b. emotional abuse. d. all of these.
In an experiment, what group receives the treatment?
a. experimental group b. comparison group c. cohort group d. control group
Suppose a child is shown a set of glass marbles that includes 5 red marbles and 8 green marbles. The child is asked to count the red marbles, then the green marbles, and then all the marbles, which she can do
Although she can answer the question, "Are there more red or green marbles?" she cannot correctly answer the question, "Are there more red marbles than glass marbles?" This situation most clearly demonstrates which of the following concepts? a. irreversibility b. egocentrism c. centration d. symbolic representation
One major theory of the etiology of dissociative identity disorder is that it results from
a) fear of facing the complexities of adult living. b) drug use in predisposed individuals. c) suggestions by therapists or media influences. d) having a fantasy life more reinforcing than reality