Explain how mothers’ behavior toward infants in the studies of Ainsworth and others is related to the four patterns of attachment
What will be an ideal response?
Secure attachment: mothers are sensitive and responsive
Insecure-avoidant attachment: mothers are either overly intrusive or rejecting of infant’s social overtures
Insecure-ambivalent attachment: mothers are inconsistent in responding to the infant’s social overtures and sometimes do not provide comfort to a distressed infant
Insecure-disorganized attachment: mothers may have been neglected or abused and the infant may have had a highly negative temperament
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a. 2 to 3 months. b. 4 to 6 months. c. 6 to 8 months. d. 10 to 12 months.
Beyond learning of potential disorders that may be passed on to children, ___________ may also be used to identify future disorders for an individual. An example would be identification of the flawed gene for Huntington's disease
a. biogenetics c. bioengineering b. genetic counseling d. environmental counseling
Abnormal psychology deals chiefly with ______
a. diseases c. abnormal behaviors b. traits d. problems of immaturity
If I computed t_obs=((m_1-m_2 ))/s_(m_1-m_2 ) =5, when sample 1 has 16 scores and sample 2 has 26 scores what is d?
a. 25 b. 1.59 c. 2.24 d. 15.74