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6. The continuity hypothesis suggests that...

  • emtionally secure infants become emotionally secure adults
  • emotionally secure adults have emotionally secure infants
  • emotionally secure infants become good parents
  • emotionally secure infants get better jobs

7. Evidence for the temperament hypothesis is...

  • from Harlow's study which helps support the idea of secondary attachments and caregiver sensitivity
  • from Thomas and Chess who found 3 temperament types: easy, difficult and slow to warm up.
  • from Hodges and Tizard's research which supports the idea of a sensitive period.

8. Bowlby described attachment as...

  • adaptive and innate
  • adaptive and learnt
  • sensative and innate
  • internal and innate

9. The sensitive period is...

  • When the baby is in the womb
  • When the baby is fully developed
  • The second quarter of the first year, when infants are most sensitive to development of attachments.
  • The first decade, when infants are most sensitive to development of attachments.

10. A criticism of Harlow's study as supporting research is...

  • it used animals and thus cannot be generalized onto humans
  • it was a natural experiment using animals
  • it used animals and therefore is bias
  • it used animals and therefore provides no evidence

11. Children brought up with no secondary attachment figures can...

  • lack social skills
  • lack sensitivity
  • lack social releasers
  • learn well

12. What do social releasers do?

  • elicit a good attachment
  • elicit a secure base
  • elicit a caregiving reaction or response
  • elicit imprinting

13. An alternative explanation to Bowlby's theory is...

  • the temperament plan
  • the temperament hypothesis
  • the temperament ideology
  • Bowlby's second theory