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WorksheetsAQA A-level Psychology: Attachment Summary
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following best describes reciprocity?
a)
A walk
b)
A chat
c)
A dance
d)
A fight
2.
During interaction, the mother's and infant's signals:
a)
Synchronise
b)
differentiate
c)
Slow down
d)
Stay the same
3.
Which of the following activities is more common in fathers than mothers?
a)
Smiling
b)
Holding
c)
Imitating
d)
Playing
4.
Which of these is a strength of research into early interaction?
a)
It is a socially sensitive topic
b)
It is easy to intrepret infant behaviour
c)
Controlled observations capture fine detail
d)
Observations tell us the functions of behaviour
5.
In Schaffer & Emerson's (1964) study which of the following best describes the participants?
a)
60 18 month old girls from Glasgow
b)
60 middle-class children and fathers from Glasgow
c)
30 working-class boys and their families from Glasgow
d)
60 working-class children and their families from Glasgow
6.
Schaffer & Emerson assessed what in infants?
a)
Stranger anxiety
b)
Separation anxiety
c)
Separation and stranger anxiety
d)
Exploration
7.
In which of these stages does a child first display social behaviour towards all adults?
a)
The asocial stage
b)
The indiscriminate attachment stage
c)
The discriminate attachment stage
d)
The multiple attachment stage
8.
At what age do infants usually start to form a specific attachment?
a)
2 months
b)
7 months
c)
11 months
d)
18 months
9.
What is the phenomenon in which early contact influences mate preference called?
a)
Imprinting
b)
Contact comfort
c)
Deprivation
d)
Sexual imprinting
10.
Which of these behaviours describes Harlow's monkeys that were maternally deprived?
a)
Aggressive
b)
Sociable
c)
Devious
d)
Good parents
11.
In which condition were Harlow's monkeys most damaged by early experience?
a)
Biological mother from birth
b)
Wire mother from birth
c)
Cloth mother from birth
d)
Biological mother from two months
12.
Which of these is an argument for animal attachment research?
a)
Clear applications to humans
b)
They form emotional attachments like humans
c)
Ethics of animal suffering
d)
Replication of findings
13.
According to classical conditioning, which of the following best describes the attachment figure?
a)
A unconditioned stimulus
b)
An unconditioned response
c)
A conditioned stimulus
d)
All other options
14.
A parent learning to comfort a crying baby in order to stop it crying is an example of:
a)
Negative reinforcement
b)
Positive reinforcement
c)
Punishment
d)
Vicarious reinforcement
15.
In learning theory, which of the following is the focus of a primary drive?
a)
Food
b)
Love
c)
Comfort
d)
Aggression
16.
Which of the following is true of learning theory explanations for attachment?
a)
They make use of classical conditioning only
b)
There is counter-evidence from human studies
c)
Attachment is seen as a primary drive
d)
They focus on the role of interactional synchrony
17.
Which of the following statements is true of monotropy?
a)
One attachment is seen as different and more important than others
b)
Children can only attach to one person
c)
Children must have one care-giver only
d)
The primary attachment figure must be the biological mother
18.
Which of the following is probably not a social releaser?
a)
Smiling
b)
Cooing
c)
Gripping
d)
Projectile vomiting
19.
Internal working models have an influence on which of the following?
a)
Romantic relationships
b)
Relationships with own children
c)
Relationships with friends
d)
All other options
20.
According to Bowlby, the critical period in humans lasts for approximately how long?
a)
1 month
b)
12 months
c)
2 years
d)
16 years
21.
The Strange Situation can be best described as what kind of study?
a)
Naturalistic observation
b)
Controlled observation
c)
Laboratory experiment
d)
Self-report
22.
How is separation anxiety assessed in the Strange Situation?
a)
Being spoken to by a stranger
b)
Playing in an unfamiliar room
c)
Being left alone in the playroom
d)
Reunion with the primary attachment figure
23.
Which is true of securely attached infants in the Strange Situation?
a)
They are clingy
b)
They get extremely anxious at separation
c)
They are happy at reunion with the primary attachment figure
d)
They show little or no anxiety
24.
Which of these is a strength of Ainworth's attachment types?
a)
Influence of temperament
b)
Inter-rater reliability of behaviour in the Strange Situation
c)
Cross-cultural validity of the Strange Situation
d)
Additional attachment types appear to exist
25.
In van Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg's study of cultural variations in attachment, which country had the highest rate of secure attachment?
a)
Israel
b)
USA
c)
Britain
d)
Japan
26.
In van Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg's study of cultural variations in attachment, which country had the highest rate of insecure-avoidant attachment?
a)
Germany
b)
Sweden
c)
Britain
d)
Japan
27.
In their recent Italian study Simonelli et al. found an unusually high level of:
a)
Insecure-resistant attachment
b)
Secure attachment
c)
Insecure-avoidant attachment
d)
Atypical attachment
28.
Which is not true of cross-cultural attachment comparisons?
a)
Secure attachment is the most common attachment type in every country
b)
There is more variation in attachments within countries than between them
c)
Some attachment behaviours seem to have different meanings in different countries
d)
Some countries have particularly bad parents
29.
Which of the following best describes maternal deprivation?
a)
Separation from the primary attachment figure
b)
Failure to attach to a primary attachment figure
c)
Failure of the attachment figures to feed the infant
d)
Loss of care of the primary attachment figure without a substitute
30.
The critical period in which prolonged separation can lead to deprivation is within the first:
a)
30 days
b)
30 weeks
c)
30 months
d)
30 years
31.
Which of the following is true of the 44 thieves study?
a)
There was no association between maternal deprivation and affectionless psychopathy
b)
Partial replications, e.g. Lewis (1954) have found similar results
c)
Results are not supported by those of Goldfarb (1955)
d)
There may be bias because Bowlby assessed affectionless psychopathy and deprivation
32.
Which of the following is not usually a symptom of affectionless psychopathy?
a)
Lack of empathy
b)
Lack of guilt
c)
Inability to form close relationships
d)
Serial murder
33.
Which of the following best describes the aim of the ERA study?
a)
A follow-up of Polish orphans looking at social and intellectual development
b)
A follow-up of Romanian orphans fostered in Romania
c)
A follow-up of Romanian orphans looking at social and intellectual development
d)
A follow-up testing the quality of adoptees available from Romania
34.
What did the ERA study discover about the impact of institutionalisation on adopted children?
a)
Children adopted before 6 months rarely display disinhibited attachments
b)
Children adopted before 12 months rarely display disinhibited attachments
c)
Children adopted before 18 months rarely display disinhibited attachments
d)
Children adopted before 24 months rarely display disinhibited attachments
35.
Which of the following is a symptom of disinhibited attachment?
a)
Avoidant attachment behaviour
b)
Indiscriminate attachment behaviour
c)
Secure attachment behaviour
d)
Resistant attachment behaviour
36.
Which of these is an advantage of the Bucharest Early intervention project?
a)
Better ethics than the ERA
b)
A larger sample than the ERA
c)
Random allocation to conditions
d)
Children were fostered rather than adopted
37.
Which of these is a true statement concerning internal working models?
a)
They serve as templates for future relationships
b)
They are the result of temperament
c)
They make perfect predictions about what sort of relationships people will have
d)
They determine social development and are unalterable
38.
Which attachment type is most likely to be associated with victims of bullying?
a)
Securely attached
b)
Insecure-resistant
c)
Insecure-avoidant
d)
Disinhibited
39.
Which attachment type is most likely to have a lot of arguments with friends?
a)
Securely attached
b)
Insecure-resistant
c)
Insecure-avoidant
d)
Disinhibited
40.
Which of these studies does not support an important role for internal working models?
a)
Myron-Wilson & Smith (1998)
b)
Zimmerman et al. (2000)
c)
McCarthy (1999)
d)
Bailey et al. (2007)
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