According to Harlow, the crucial element to forming attachments is:

According to John Bowlby, attachment behavior is _____ in humans in order to _____.

Which one of the following is NOT true of separation anxiety?

Bowlby found that when the child becomes separated from the attachment figure, the child initially _____ and subsequently becomes _____ if the attachment figure is gone too long.

_____children often seem relatively unfazed by their mother's departure, whereas _____ children become very upset.

Research has shown that internal working models help explain:

Research findings suggest that secure attachment does NOT affect which area?

A professor friend of mine and I were talking about our experience when we were children. He mentions that he had a great relationship with his parents but he was never able to provide me with any examples. Interestingly, he then states that it doesn't matter since parental relationships are not that important anyway. My friend can likely be categorized as having which adult attachment style?

Attachment patterns in adults have been shown to be able to predict which one of the following?

My father grounds me because I come in merely five minutes after curfew. “The rules are the rules,” he says. He obviously is a/an _____ parent.

My mother raises my and my siblings in a unique way. She tells us to do what we want since we will have to live with the consequences. My mother has which type of parenting style?

My sister-in-law was in high school when her parents caught her incredibly drunk. While they did discipline her, they sat down with her and told her why they gave her the punishment they did and what they were thinking. Her parents appears to have which parenting style?

Studies have found that the most independent, inquisitive, academically competent and sociable children usually have _____ parents.

Which parenting style is associated with low independence, vulnerability to stress, low self-esteem, and an external locus of control?

Which one of the following is NOT true?

For young children, the meaning of friendship is:

Children differ substantially in the way they form relationships and are accepted by their peers. Children who are disliked by their peers are termed _____ and are often teased and ostracized.

Research involved in covertly placing objects (e.g., rouge) on the face of children has revealed that they apparently develop a self-concept:

My 1-year old niece is about to grab something she has never seen before. Just as she is about to grasp it, she looks at her mother and sees her frowning. According to the textbook, and what psychologists know about children's concept of others, my niece will likely:

In order to move away from egocentrism and toward the ability to represent another person's mind in one's own, an individual must develop a _____ - an implicit set of ideas about the existence of mental states, such as beliefs and feelings in oneself and others.

A change in appearance or activity will not result in a child thinking there was a change in the person's gender if the child possesses:

Behavioral differences have been shown to exist between men and women. A friend of mine takes a social learning interpretation of the data and argues that:

Piaget's theory of morality argues that _____ refers to that point when children believe that morals are absolute.

My girlfriend and I both agree that one of the rules for the game we are playing can be disregarded. We are displaying Piaget's notion of:

According to Kohlberg, at the third level of moral development, postconventional morality, individuals:

My young son asks me what is wrong and I tell him I had a long, hard day. He walks away and comes back and gives me his favorite blanket to cheer me up. It worked. My son is displaying what psychologists refer to as:

Which is NOT a criticism of Kohlberg's theory of moral development?

My two and a half year old son wants to help me carry clothes to the laundry room. He has a big desire to show he can do it without any help. He is his own man. According to Erikson, his development will be affected especially if he fails which will result in shame. My son is in Stage:

After the fall semester has ended, I fly to Florida so that I can spend the holidays with my family. Once there, my 8 year old niece immediately tells me she can read and says, “Wait. I'll show you.” She proceeds to get a few books and reads each one to me. In Erikson's theory of development, which stage is she in?

Erikson was one of the first theorists to take seriously the notion of development beyond adolescence. Erikson described the developmental tasks confronting young adults as: