LE4 (2025) Flashcards
(40 cards)
According to the attachment theory, people are born with a predisposition to become attached to caregivers in their earliest years.
A. True
B. False
A. True
According to the attachment theory, the goal of the child is to seek a physical state achieved by a detachment from the mother or caregiver.
A. True
B. False
B. False
The founder of attachment theory is
Select one:
A. Mary Ainsworth.
B. Harry Stack Sullivan.
C. John Bowlby.
D. Sigmund Freud.
C. John Bowlby.
Which of the following statements about attachment theory is CORRECT?
Select one:
A. There is no biological basis to it.
B. The child seeks attachment to a caregiver in order to feel secure.
C. There is no empirical evidence for it.
D. The child develops attachment by becoming dependent on his/her caregiver.
B. The child seeks attachment to a caregiver in order to feel secure.
Secure attachment with another person is believed to occur when
Select one:
A. the caregiver has not developed secure attachment himself/herself.
B. psychological closeness is transformed to physical closeness.
C. there is no biological predisposition for proximity with the caregiver.
D. physical closeness is transformed to psychological closeness.
D. physical closeness is transformed to psychological closeness.
Which of the following are best considered as aspects of a secure attachment?
Select one:
a. Safe haven and secure base
b. Physical and psychological closeness
c. Safe and secure environment
d. Consistent and predictable caregiver
a. Safe haven and secure base
Which of the following statements best describes a safe haven?
Select one:
A. It is the attachment figure who has developed secure attachment in childhood.
B. It is the environment that provides physical nourishment to the child in times of hunger.
C. It the environment that does not pose any physical dangers.
D. It is the attachment figure who provides a sense of security to the child in times of distress.
D. It is the attachment figure who provides a sense of security to the child in times of distress.
This allows the infant to explore its world because of its confidence that the attachment figure can be relied upon if needed.
Select one:
A. Secure base
B. Safe attachment
C. Safe haven
D. Secure attachment
A. Secure base
Secure base and safe haven are synonymous with
Select one:
A. psychological proximity and physical proximity.
B. physical closeness and psychological closeness.
C. nurturance and protection.
D. love and care.
C. nurturance and protection.
At what age will the child’s attachment style be predictive of their responses to internal and external stimuli in adulthood?
Select one:
A. 13 years
B. 5 years
C. 1 year
D. 2 years
C. 1 year
The attachment style of child of a caregiver whose adult attachment style is insecure-anxious will most likely be
Select one:
A. insecure-avoidant.
B. insecure-disorganized.
C. secure.
D. insecure-ambivalent.
D. insecure-ambivalent.
The works of Jean Piaget centered on the mechanisms by which thinking and knowledge acquisition come about.
Select one:
A. True
B. False
A. True
Adults who are under great stress may regress to preoperational, egocentric, & animistic thinking.
Select one:
A. True
B. False
A. True
Jean Piaget was born in the U.S.A.
Select one:
A. True
B. False
B. False
According to Jean Piaget, a schema is
Select one:
A. building block of intellectual development.
B. mechanism by which one learns to talk.
C. process of improving one’s self-esteem.
D. plan to outwit one’s rivals or opponents.
A. building block of intellectual development.
Jean Piaget defined assimilation as the process of
Select one:
A. learning how to think.
B. changing old schemas.
C. fitting new objects into schemas.
D. remembering old schemas.
C. fitting new objects into schemas.
Ben is a 2-year-old boy who has learned from books about dogs, cows, fish, and birds. When he visited his grandmother in the farm he saw a goat for the first time. He joyfully pointed at it and screamed, “Doggie! Doggie!” His mom corrected him by saying, “No honey that’s not a doggie. That’s a goat.” When young Ben came back to the farm and saw a goat he exclaimed, “Goat! Goat!”
What process of thinking did Ben demonstrate when he called the goat a dog?
Select one:
A. Hallucination
B. Accommodation
C. Delusion
D. Assimilation
D. Assimilation
Ben is a 2-year-old boy who has learned from books about dogs, cows, fish, and birds. When he visited his grandmother in the farm he saw a goat for the first time. He joyfully pointed at it and screamed, “Doggie! Doggie!” His mom corrected him by saying, “No honey that’s not a doggie. That’s a goat.” When young Ben went back to the farm and saw a goat he exclaimed, “Goat! Goat!”
What process of thinking did Ben demonstrate when he was able to correctly identify the goat?
Select one:
A. Assimilation
B. Adaptation
C. Insight
D. Accommodation
D. Accommodation
Jean Piaget defined accommodation as the process of
Select one:
A. becoming flexible with other people.
B. establishing compassion for others.
C. changing schemas to fit new objects.
D. learning right from wrong.
C. changing schemas to fit new objects.
Cheryl is a 1-year-old girl who learns about objects around her by grasping on them and putting them inside her mouth. Piaget called this stage of learning as
Select one:
A. formal operations.
B. sensorimotor stage.
C. reflexive symbolic action.
D. pre-operational stage.
B. sensorimotor stage.
Which of the following statements BEST describes object permanence?
Select one:
A. An object can only exist if a child has normal sensorimotor functioning.
B. An object exists in the mind of a child even if it out of sight.
C. An object ceases to exist in the mind of a child when it disappears from sight.
D. An object can only exist in the mind of a child if it is within sight.
B. An object exists in the mind of a child even if it out of sight.
Object permanence is considered the first stage of thinking because it
Select one:
A. enables the child to hold an idea in his/her head.
B. enables the child to assimilate objects in his/her schemas.
C. facilities the child’s process of language development.
D. allows the child to form new concepts in his/her mind.
A. enables the child to hold an idea in his/her head.
Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development states that
Select one:
A. object permanence is developing during the stage of pre-operational thought.
B. symbolization is the endowing of physical events and objects with lifelike psychological attributes.
C. immanent justice is the belief that punishment for bad deeds is inevitable.
D. children are egocentric during the stage of concrete operations.
C. immanent justice is the belief that punishment for bad deeds is inevitable.
According to Piaget, an important process that develops during the stage of concrete operations is the
Select one:
A. ability to make and follow rules.
B. ability to distinguish between the ideal self and the real self.
C. use of phenomenological causality as a mode of thinking.
D. ability to reason about reasoning or thinking.
A. ability to make and follow rules.
