PRITE: Childhood and
Development: Attachment,
Development Exam Prep 2025
Questions and Answers
Q: Adult's patterns of interacting with others predicted by what according to object
relations and attachment theory? - ✔✔A: capacity to perceive and think about the
intensions of others
Q: Which neurotransmitter system is the last to mature in CNS of children and
adolescent? (2x) - ✔✔A: cholinergic
Q: What does "strange situation" in child development is used to assess in attachment
theory? (2x) - ✔✔A: security of attachment
+ Strange situation: research protocol for assessing the quality and security of an
infant's attachment by exposing an infant to escalating amount of stress
i.e. infant and adult enter unfamiliar room and the parent leaves the room
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, Q: infants are more likely to have insecure attachment with poor child care if primary
caretaker are also: - ✔✔A: unresponsive to their infant's needs
Q: Key characteristic of preschoolers who are securely attached? - ✔✔A: Trust and
reciprocity
Q: What has been found regarding infant's attachment to their parents? - ✔✔A: strength
of infant's attachment is a function only of the interaction with the primary parent
+ attachment gives an infant feeling of security- the amount of time together is less
important than the amount of activity between the two.
Q: What statement about infant/parent interactions is supported by integration of
clinical/experimental observations in early child development? - ✔✔A: infants are born
with sophisticated perceptual abilities that facilitate attachment
Q: At what developmental stage due kids first exhibit ability to recognize their thoughts
and feeling of their own and that others may think and feel differently? - ✔✔A: pre-
school (2-5y/o)
Q: Starting around age 3, children spontaneously use language in which of the
following events? - ✔✔A: describe past events
+ Language/cognitive development of preschool period (age 2-5): starts using
sentences, think symbolically, still egocentric, incapable of empathy
Q: Compared to pre-school age children, a school-age children with normal language
development will demonstrate what ability? - ✔✔A: constructing sentences with
multiple clauses
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Development: Attachment,
Development Exam Prep 2025
Questions and Answers
Q: Adult's patterns of interacting with others predicted by what according to object
relations and attachment theory? - ✔✔A: capacity to perceive and think about the
intensions of others
Q: Which neurotransmitter system is the last to mature in CNS of children and
adolescent? (2x) - ✔✔A: cholinergic
Q: What does "strange situation" in child development is used to assess in attachment
theory? (2x) - ✔✔A: security of attachment
+ Strange situation: research protocol for assessing the quality and security of an
infant's attachment by exposing an infant to escalating amount of stress
i.e. infant and adult enter unfamiliar room and the parent leaves the room
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, Q: infants are more likely to have insecure attachment with poor child care if primary
caretaker are also: - ✔✔A: unresponsive to their infant's needs
Q: Key characteristic of preschoolers who are securely attached? - ✔✔A: Trust and
reciprocity
Q: What has been found regarding infant's attachment to their parents? - ✔✔A: strength
of infant's attachment is a function only of the interaction with the primary parent
+ attachment gives an infant feeling of security- the amount of time together is less
important than the amount of activity between the two.
Q: What statement about infant/parent interactions is supported by integration of
clinical/experimental observations in early child development? - ✔✔A: infants are born
with sophisticated perceptual abilities that facilitate attachment
Q: At what developmental stage due kids first exhibit ability to recognize their thoughts
and feeling of their own and that others may think and feel differently? - ✔✔A: pre-
school (2-5y/o)
Q: Starting around age 3, children spontaneously use language in which of the
following events? - ✔✔A: describe past events
+ Language/cognitive development of preschool period (age 2-5): starts using
sentences, think symbolically, still egocentric, incapable of empathy
Q: Compared to pre-school age children, a school-age children with normal language
development will demonstrate what ability? - ✔✔A: constructing sentences with
multiple clauses
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