Attachment & Early Brain Development

There is a relationship between attachment quality and early brain development: Healthy/secure attachment has positive effects on brain development while Unhealthy/insecure attachment (e.g., An insecure-disorganized attachment) has negative effects on brain development.

• True

• False

Attachment security is constructed by the adult in a adult-child relationship.

• True

• False

This approximately 50-year-old procedure's purpose is to measure attachment quality between a primary caregiver and a one-year-old child.

• The Situation

• The Adult-Child Relationship

• The Strange Situation

• None of the above

Based on your previous response, researchers focus primarily on these behaviors of the child:

• Separation only

• Reunion only

• The extent to which the s/he explores (plays)

• Separation & Reunion

Identify the number of types of attachment quality?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

A young child that shows little/no separation- and stranger anxiety is likely to have this kind of insecure attachment to his/her primary caregiver.

• Resistant-ambivalent

• Avoidant

• Disorganized

• Secure

A primary caregiver who's inconsistent in responding and/or whose responses are inconsistent (e.g., sometimes sensitive and other times hostile) is likely to have this type of attachment quality with her child.

• Avoidant

• Secure

• Resistant-ambivalent

• Disorganized

This is the least common type of attachment in the U.S. right now, but its' long-term developmental effects are the most severe.

• Resistant-ambivalent

• Avoidant

• Disorganized

• Insensitive/Hostile

We want to co-construct a secure attachment with our children, so that...:

• They are open to interact with the world/others

• They believe others can be trusted

• Their developmental outcomes are more positive than negative

• All of the above

The Strange Situation is a valid measure of attachment quality in all places and cultures.

• True

• False