Describe Mary Ainsworth's three styles of attachment as characterized by the strange-situation method.
What will be an ideal response?
Secure attachment: a type of attachment characterized by being mildly distressed at leave-takings and readily soothed by reunion.
Avoidant attachment: a type of insecure attachment characterized by apparent indifference to leave-takings from and reunions with an attachment figure.
Ambivalent/resistant attachment: a type of insecure attachment characterized by severe distress at leave-takings from and ambivalent behavior at reunions.
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Risk factors for coronary heart disease include all of the following EXCEPT
a. family history. c. smoking. b. high blood pressure. d. type B behavior.
A design in which a single group of subjects is tested both before and after treatment is a _____ design
a. correlational b. single-group posttest only c. single-group pretest/posttest d. experimental
Western psychology traces its origin to
a. Indian Yogic traditions. b. classical Greek philosophy. c. Asian and African psychology. d. the early Roman Catholic church.
The most common infertility problem in women is:
a. irregular ovulation or lack of ovulation. b. endometriosis. c. barriers to the passageways through which the ovum must pass. d. PID.