Imprinting and Attachment Quiz

This individual is known for studying imprinting in geese.

• Harry Harlow

• Konrad Lorenz

• John Bowlby

• Mary Ainsworth

Which sentence below provides the best definition of imprinting.

• The feeling of attachment a child feels towards their parental figure.

• Mimicking and replication of a particular behavior by a child towards a peer.

• Rapid instinctual learning that happens at a critical period of an organism’s life.

• When a child uses their parent figure as a secure base to explore their environment.

In Harry Harlow’s studies, what was the primary difference between the two artificial monkey mothers he built for his research?

• One was made of cloth and the other was made up of wire.

• One had a feeding apparatus and the other no feeding apparatus.

• One was heated by a lamp while the other was just a wood block.

• One was made of cotton and the other real monkey fur.

How many hours per day did the rhesus monkey infants spend with the wire mother when the feeding apparatus was present in the cloth mother?

• 0 hours

• 2 hours

• 4 hours

• 8 hours

The “secure base” hypothesis is best stated as...

Infants learn from their peers about what are risky behaviors and develop an idea of secure behaviors.

• Infants learn from their peers about what are risky behaviors and develop an idea of secure behaviors.

• Infants automatically begin to take risks and explore their environment, if the parent does not reprimand them then they feel secure in their behaviors.

• Infants need a sense of security and comfort from parent figures to be willing to explore their environment and takes risks.

• Infants lose their sense of security if their parents are neglectful and do not show affection.

A child is raised in an environment in which they are neglected and ignored. The child’s needs are not adequately met, and the parent provide little attention. What kind of internal working model is the child most likely to develop?

• Skewed towards affection.

• Skewed towards unworthiness.

• Skewed towards acceptance.

• Skewed towards neutral.

The stranger situation paradigm was designed to assess a child’s...

• Sense of ego

• Trust in strangers

• Internal self-esteem

• Attachment

What percentage of infants were classified as type A or avoidant attachment in Mary Ainsworth’s observation?

• 5%

• 20%

• 70%

• 10%

From Ainsworth's observations of the stranger situation paradigm children who were classified as secure attachment (type B) showed anxiety when their mother left but would avoid the stranger when alone.

• True

• False