Attachment (MQ)

Question 1

Which of the following best describes reciprocity?

Answer 1

A dance

Question 2

During interaction, the mother’s infant’s signals?

Answer 2

Synchronise

Question 3

Which of the following activities is more common in fathers than mothers?

Answer 3

Playing

Question 4

Which of these is a strength of research into early interaction?

Answer 4

Controlled observation captures fine detail

Question 5

In the 1964 study which of the following best describes the participant?

Answer 5

60 Working-class children and their families from Glasgow

Question 6

Shaffer and Emerson assessed what in the infant?

Answer 6

Separation and stranger anxiety

Question 7

In which of these stages does a child first display social behaviour towards all adults?

Answer 7

The indiscriminate attachment stage

Question 8

At what age do children start to form a specific attachment?

Answer 8

7 months

Question 9

What is the phenomenon, in which early contact influences mate preference called?

Answer 9

Sexual imprinting

Question 10

Which of these behaviours describes Harlow’s monkeys that were maternally deprived?

Answer 10

Aggressive

Question 11

In which condition were Harlow’s monkeys most damaged by early experience?

Answer 11

Wire mother from birth

Question 12

Which of these is an argument for animal attachment research?

Answer 12

Clear applications to humans

Question 13

According to classical conditioning, which of the following best describes the attachment figure:

Answer 13

A conditioned stimulus

Question 14

A parent learning to comfort a crying baby in order to stop it crying is an example:

Answer 14

Negative reinforcement

Question 15

In learning theory, which of the following is the focus of a primary drive?

Answer 15

FOOD

Question 16

Which of the following is true of learning theory explanations for attachment?

Answer 16

There is counter-evidence from human studies

Question 17

Which of the following is true for monotropy?

Answer 17

One attachment is seen as different and more important than others

Question 18

Which of the following is probably not a releaser?

Answer 18

Projectile vomiting

Question 19

Internal working models have an influence on which of the following?

Answer 19

All of these

Question 20

According to Bowlby, the critical period in humans lasts approximately how long?

Answer 20

Two years

Question 21

The strange situation can be best described as what kind of study?

Answer 21

Controlled observation

Question 22

How is separation anxiety assessed in the strange situation?

Answer 22

Being left alone in the playroom

Question 23

Which is true of securely attached infants in the strange situation?

Answer 23

They are happy at reunion with the primary attachment figure

Question 24

Which of these is a strength of Ainsworth’s attachment type?

Answer 24

Inter-rater reliability of the strange situation

Question 25

In van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg's study, which country had the highest rate of secure-avoidant attachment?

Answer 25

Britain

Question 26

In Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg's study, which country had the highest rate of insecure-avoidant attachment?

Answer 26

Germany

Question 27

Which is not true of cross-cultural attachment comparisons?

Answer 27

Some countries have particularly bad parents

Question 28

Which of the following best describes Maternal deprivation?

Answer 28

Loss of care of the primary attachment figure without a substitute

Question 29

The critical period in which prolonged separation can lead to deprivation is within the first:

Answer 29

30 months

Question 30

Which of the following is true of the 44 thieves study?

Answer 30

There may be bias because Bowlby assessed affectionless psychopathy and deprivation

Question 31

Which of the following is not usually a symptom of affectionless psychopathy?

Answer 31

Serial murder

Question 32

Which of the following best describes the aim of the ERA study?

Answer 32

A follow-up of Romanian orphans looking at social and intellectual development

Question 33

At 4 years:

Answer 33

A negative correlation was found between age of adoption and intellectual development

Question 34

Which of the following is a symptom of disinhibited attachment?

Answer 34

Indiscriminate attachment behaviour

Question 35

Which of these is an advantage of the Bucharest Early Intervention (BEI) project?

Answer 35

Random allocation to condition

Question 36

Which of these is a true statement concerning internal working models?

Answer 36

They serve as templates for future relationships

Question 37

Which attachment type is most likely to be associated with bullying?

Answer 37

Insecure-avoidant

Question 38

Which attachment type is most likely to have a lot of arguments with friends?

Answer 38

Insecure-resistant

Question 39

Which of these studies does not support an important role for internal working models?

Answer 39

Bailey et al. (2007)