Harlow found that baby monkeys attached themselves to a monkey doll covered with soft cuddly cloth, even when it fed elsewhere. This result ____ Freud's psychoanalytic theory of attachment.
a. strongly supported
b. mildly supported
c. was irrelevant to
d. contradicted
Question 2Natural selection is a key supporting principle of ____ theory.
a. ethological
b. Piaget's cognitive
c. psychoanalytical
d. sociocultural
Question 3Freud's psychoanalytic theory suggested that the basis for the development of attachment was
a. pleasure derived from oral activities such as sucking or feeding.
b. the mother acting as a conditioned stimulus for positive outcomes.
c. the maturing of the infant's concept of object permanence.
d. preprogrammed responses (such as smiling, crawling, or vocalizing) that help initiate or maintain contact.
Question 4Which research topic would most appeal to a human ethologist such as John Bowlby?
a. Nurturance of eggs by brooding mother dinosaurs
b. Reflexes in human infants
c. Children's observational learning of video games
d. Learning of preschoolers' food preferences
Question 5Harry Harlow's experiments with infant monkeys and surrogate wire-frame mothers showed that attachment for monkeys is based on
a. cuddly body contact comfort.
b. being fed by the attachment object.
c. instinctive preference for a related individual.
d. getting reliable attention.
Question 6____ involves the study of the impact that evolution may have on the behavior of humans.
a. Ethology
b. Ecology
c. Natural selection
d. Imprinting
Question 7A slogan of Freud's psychoanalytic theory of attachment would be,
a. I love whoever feeds me..
b. I've got a need to be hugged..
c. Gimme a reinforcement..
d. We were born to be close..
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