Review Questions Ch. 10

1. Explain what is meant by attachment and how it can be distinguished from other relationships?
2. Identify four phases that infants pass through while they develop an attachment to their parents.
3. Contrast psychoanalytic, learning, and ethological theories of attachment.
4. Describe Harry Harlow's primate study on the importance of feeding for the formation of attachment, and summarize the main conclusions from that research.
5. Describe four patterns of attachment, and indicate the proportion of children who fit each pattern.
6. Describe how the "strange situation" procedure is used to assess the security of an attachment relationship. How do children with different attachment statuses respond?
7. Identify aspects of caregiving that promote secure, resistant, avoidant or disorganized attachment relationships between an infant and his or her caregivers.
8. Describe characteristics that are seen in later childhood when a child has formed a secure, resistant, avoidant, or disorganized attachment with his or her caregivers during infancy.
9. How stable is attachment status over time? What factors have the biggest impact on its stability? Provide examples.
10. What is temperament? What temperamental dimensions have been identified?
11. Describe the three temperamental profiles identified by Thomas and Chess.
12. List three guidelines for adapting parenting techniques to different child temperaments.
13. Provide an example that illustrates a good fit between a child's temperament and the pattern of child-rearing used by his or her parents, and contrast this with a poor fit.
14. Distinguish between caregiving styles of fathers and mothers.
15. How does child care affect the relationship between parents and children?
16. Identify and describe the child care factors that influence child outcomes and discuss what those outcomes are.
17. Describe the changes in parent-child attachment during adolescence. What attachment statuses have been observed and what effect do they have on an adolescence adjustment?
18. Describe what an internal working model is, and describe the events that would promote positive or negative working models of self and others.
19. Describe adult attachment statuses. How can they be distinguished from one another?
20. Is there continuity between early attachments with caregivers and later romantic relationships? Why or why not.