Your research project is focused on attachment patterns in later life and their relationship with childhood attachment experiences. It is likely that you will be using which research instrument?
a. Ainsworth Adult Assessment (AAA)
b. Minnesota Attachment Questionnaire (MAQ)
c. Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)
d. Strange Situation/Adult Version
Question 2Later in attachment research, a fourth pattern of attachment labeled _________________ was identified. Parents of these infants tended to be full of fear themselves, or inadvertently behaved in ways that were frightening to the infant.
a. fearful
b. anxious/disturbed
c. disorganized/disoriented
d. discomforted
Question 3In Ainsworths research on attachment, infants labeled with avoidant attachment had mothers who tended to be
a. overly attentive to their infants cries and protests.
b. less affectionate during the first 3 months and disliked close bodily contact with the infant.
c. aggressive toward their children and favored physical punishment.
d. inconsistent; physically distant one day, and overly clinging other days.
Question 4All of the following are characteristics of securely attached children EXCEPT
a. they are clingier and seek more physical contact than the other groups.
b. they use their mothers as a secure base from which to explore.
c. they use their mothers as a safe haven to return to should they feel fear.
d. they cry less than children in the other two groups.
Question 5The experimental situation or technique devised by Ainsworth to study attachment came to be known as the
a. Strange Situation.
b. Attachment Procedure.
c. Attachment Experiment.
d. Ainsworth Situation.
Question 6Bowlby theorized that the attachment system __________ to keep infants close to their mothers and safe from harm.
a. devolved
b. evolved
c. is learned
d. is a social adaptation
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