Question 1

Based on what is known from available research, describe the strategies that parents might use to make necessary separations more tolerable for infants and toddlers.

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Question 2

Research suggests that the benefits of a parent's taking family leave after the birth of a baby

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The question states that research suggests that the benefits of a parent's taking family leave after the birth of a baby. Option A suggests that the benefits are greater if the leave is longer (e.g., 4 months) rather than shorter (2 months or less). Option B states that the benefits are greater if the baby has a difficult rather than an easy temperament. Option C claims that the benefits of taking family leave have yet to be established. However, research does suggest that the benefits of taking family leave are greater if the leave is longer rather than shorter (option A) and are greater if the baby has a difficult rather than an easy temperament (option B). Therefore, option D is the correct answer. Option E can be excluded because option D is a valid answer.

Question 3

Observations linking sensitive parenting to secure attachments are correlational data which do not establish that sensitive caregiving causes a child to establish a secure attachment. Is there any evidence which might be interpreted as supporting such a causal inference? Explain.

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Question 4

What is an emotional attachment? How are the synchronized routines that infants and caregivers often establish thought to contribute to parent-infant attachments?

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Question 5

A social critic argues that because most day care in the U.S. is far less than optimal, women should stay home to care for their infants and toddlers, if not forever, at least until they are age 3 or older. Rebut this claim, citing at least two findings to suggest that the critic's viewpoint is misleading and potentially harmful.

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Question 6

Cite two lines of evidence that the quality of a child's attachments depend more on the caregiving she has received than on her temperamental qualities. How, then, does temperament influence attachments?

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Question 7

Describe Bowlby's theory of internal workinq models. Is there any evidence that these models might be transmitted from parent to child and have long-lasting effects on the character of a person's close relationships later in life? Cite some research to support your claim.

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Question 8

Describe the two patterns of caregiving that are thought to foster avoidant attachments and compare each to the caregiving style thought to promote resistant attachments.

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Question 9

Mother returns after a separation and is reunited with her the "Strange Situation." How does the infant respond to this reunion if he is securely attached? resistant? avoidant? disorganized/disoriented?

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Question 10

Compare and contrast the social-learning, cognitive-developmental, and ethological explanations of how infants form primary attachments.

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Question 11

You are called upon to debate Freud's claim that socially deprived institutionalized children are forlorn and apathetic and suffer many developmental impairments because they have failed to establish a secure attachment with a single mother figure. How would you answer the challenge, and what evidence would you cite to rebut Freud's explanation of social deprivation effects?

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Quiz 5: Establishment of Intimate Relationships and Their Implications for Future Development