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

Related Mcqs:

1. 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:

   A. distort the true meaning attachment
   B. be an example of a hypothesis
   C. represent an operational definition
   D. require a double-blind research design

2. Which of the following are FALSE regarding the role of theories in psychology?
   1. Facts have to be integrated in terms of theoretical explanations
   2. Theories are statements of what rather than why
   3. Theories are capable of accounting for multiple facts, but cannot predict what might happen in novel situations
   4. All of the above

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 4

3. The powerful survival impulse that leads human infants to seek closeness to their parents is called ___________________?

   A. attachment
   B. imprinting
   C. egocentrism
   D. conservation

4. 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

5. Theories explain results, predict future outcomes and:

   A. rely only on naturalistic observations
   B. guide research for future studies
   C. rely only on surveys
   D. rely only on case studies

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Educational psychology can be regarded as an applied _____in that it seeks to explain learning according to scientifically determined principles and facts concerning human behavior:

   A. Art
   B. Phenomenon
   C. Out come
   D. Science

9. The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___________________ effect?

   A. next-in-line
   B. misinformation
   C. serial position
   D. spacing

10. Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?

    A. drawing an illusory correlation
    B. false consensus effect
    C. the fundamental attribution error
    D. a defensive attribution