Dr. Dienringer wants to study attachment patterns in single-parents families. She plan to define the strength of attachment as the time it takes for the parent to respond when the infant starts to cry. Defining attachment in this way would:

Related Mcqs:

1. In the Harlow’s research surrogate mothers were used for studying the attachment behaviour of infant monkeys the surrogate mothers were:

   A. Adult female monkeys not related to the infants
   B. Older sisters of the infant monkeys
   C. Human adults who acted as mothers
   D. Wire and cloth objects placed in the monkey cages

2. In the Harlow’s research surrogate mothers were used for studying the attachment behaviour of infant monkeys. The surrogate mothers were:

   A. Adult female monkeys not related to the infants
   B. Older sister of the infant monkeys
   C. Human adults who acted as mothers
   D. Wire and cloth objects placed in the monkey cages

3. The quality of infant-caregiver attachment depends:

   A. on the quality of bonding in the first few hours of life
   B. exclusively on the infant’s temperament
   C. on this interaction between the infant’s temperament and the caregiver’s responsiveness
   D. on how stranger anxiety is handled

4. Learning theories explain attachment of infants to their parents in items of__________?

   A. Conditioning
   B. Observational learning
   C. The maturation of perceptual skills
   D. Cognitive development

5. Erik Erikson suggested that children with a very secure attachment to their parents are especially likely to experience ________________?

   A. stranger anxiety
   B. egocentrism
   C. basic trust
   D. object permanence

6. Dr. Jamil wants to study the effects of poverty on one’s self concept. To do this he interviews a group of subjects from the inner city once every five years for a period of 30 years. This experiment is an example of what type-of study?

   A. Correlational study
   B. cross sectional study
   C. Gesell’s dome
   D. longitudinal study

7. Sixteen-year-old Foster wants to spend a few years experimenting with different lifestyles and careers before he settles on who and want he wants to be foster’s behavior illustrates the identity status of:

   A. identity moratorium
   B. identity foreclosure
   C. identity achievement
   D. identity diffusion

8. Mr. Choi’s therapist wants to help him become aware of his conflicting childhood feelings of love and hate for his parents. The therapist’s goal best reflects a primary aim of:

   A. operant conditioning techniques
   B. psychoanalysis
   C. cognitive therapy
   D. client – centered therapy

9. Parents in Westernized cultures are more likely than parents in Asian cultures to encourage children to value:

   A. enduring friendships
   B. nonconformity
   C. cultural traditions
   D. norms.

10. Adopted children’s similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed to_____________; adopted children’s similarity to their adoptive parents is generally attributed to____________________.

    A. heredity; the environment
    B. the environment; heredity
    C. the environment; the environment
    D. heredity; heredity