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Research on adult attachment finds that
 
  A) childhood attachment influences love relationships in adulthood.
  B) childhood attachment does not predict adult attachment.
  C) Horney's theory was fundamentally wrong about attachment.
  D) attachment is important for understanding female personality, but not male personality.

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Question 2

Children are likely to grow up with secure attachment if their parents are
 
  A) psychologically healthy.
  B) warm and protective.
  C) present in the home.
  D) all of the above

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Question 3

In psychoanalysis, relationships are referred to as objects that can satisfy libidinal desires. The term often used for this is
 
  A) Object permanence
  B) Object relations
  C) Object love
  D) Object adoption

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Question 4

Research with parents and children, using Ainsworth's strategy of observing infants in the presence of
  a stranger,
 
  A) is consistent with Horney's theory.
  B) disconfirms Horney's theory.
  C) shows that all infants are frightened of strangers.
  D) shows that infants raised by neurotic parents prefer a stranger to their biological mothers.

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Question 5

The relational model would suggest that early relationships
 
  A) Are important because children do not yet have a sense of themselves as separate persons
  B) Are the basis for developing internal representations of self and others
  C) Prepare individuals for the expectation of love or rejection from others
  D) None of the above
  E) All the above

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Question 6

There would be less neurosis, according to Horney's theory, if
 
  A) people ate more well-balanced diets.
  B) parents loved their children more.
  C) society were more permissive about sex.
  D) schools were less rigidly structured.

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Question 7

Some feminist theorists urge that feminine strengths such as __________ should be more positively
  valued.
 
  A) independence.
  B) aggression.
  C) pornography.
  D) empathy.

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