PSY 130 Final EXAM Study Guide
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Disorganized attachment style - ✔✔Goes to parent reluctantly, perhaps looking away
from parent
May express fear when with parent
May seem to "freeze" their behavior and expressions for short periods
Parent's behaviors toward a Disorganized Child - ✔✔Is intrusive
Is emotionally unstable
May dissociate or be in a trance-like state
Confuses or frightens child
May be harsh or abusive
(i.e mental illnesses, or drug abuse parents)
parental sensitivity - ✔✔An important factor contributing to the security of an
infant's attachment.
Parental sensitivity varies
(i.e being responsive when infant is distress)
Intervention Studies - ✔✔Indicate causal relationship between parental sensitivity
and security of attachment. (i.e parents trained to be more sensitive in their care giving).
,Long Term Effects of Attachment Styles - ✔✔Children securely attached as infants see to
have closer, more harmonious relationships with peers than do insecurely attached children
Secure attachment in infancy predicts positive peer and romantic relationships and
emotional health in adolescence
Secure attachment in infancy also earn higher grades
Attachment in Context - ✔✔Attachment is associated with a variety of long-term effects
on development but:
Not the only important factor in development
Not deterministic
Dutch Study - ✔✔Half of the sample was randomly assigned to condition with
sensitivity training, the other being the control group.
3 months later: more infants of mothers in the experimental group were securely attached
than those in control
Differences in attachment still apparent later in age
Rouge Test - ✔✔A test for self-awareness. Puts a dot of rouge (red powder) on a child's face.
Sees if the children clean the spot off mirror or their own face.
The Self in Adolescence - ✔✔Adolescents start to think of themselves in terms of
abstract characteristics that encompass a variety of concrete characteristics and behaviors.
Adolescents can also conceive of themselves in terms of a variety of selves, depending on the
context.
personal fable - ✔✔a form of adolescent egocentrism that involves beliefs in the
uniqueness of one's own feelings and thoughts
, imaginary audience - ✔✔The belief, stemming from adolescent egocentrism, that
everyone else is focused on the adolescent's appearance and behavior
late adolescence/early adulthood - ✔✔Conception of self becomes more integrated
More internalized personal values, beliefs, and standards
Less emphasis on other's evaluations
Incorporates numerous aspects of self
(values & goals about future, political
& religious beliefs, sexual identity)
A Chinese Experiment - ✔✔One Child Policy
No differences between "onlies" and other children in regard to social behavior and personality.
The larger world affects what goes
on in families, and culture can have a
tremendous effect on families and interactions
among family members
Changes in Family Structure - ✔✔Children much more likely in 2014 to be living with
single parents or with unmarried cohabiting parents than in 2019
Birth Rates for Unmarried Women - ✔✔The proportion of birth for unmarried women in
general rose sharply from 1980 to 2005. However, the rate of births for unmarried teens
has dropped substantially.
Questions solved 100% Correct (latest
update 2025).
Disorganized attachment style - ✔✔Goes to parent reluctantly, perhaps looking away
from parent
May express fear when with parent
May seem to "freeze" their behavior and expressions for short periods
Parent's behaviors toward a Disorganized Child - ✔✔Is intrusive
Is emotionally unstable
May dissociate or be in a trance-like state
Confuses or frightens child
May be harsh or abusive
(i.e mental illnesses, or drug abuse parents)
parental sensitivity - ✔✔An important factor contributing to the security of an
infant's attachment.
Parental sensitivity varies
(i.e being responsive when infant is distress)
Intervention Studies - ✔✔Indicate causal relationship between parental sensitivity
and security of attachment. (i.e parents trained to be more sensitive in their care giving).
,Long Term Effects of Attachment Styles - ✔✔Children securely attached as infants see to
have closer, more harmonious relationships with peers than do insecurely attached children
Secure attachment in infancy predicts positive peer and romantic relationships and
emotional health in adolescence
Secure attachment in infancy also earn higher grades
Attachment in Context - ✔✔Attachment is associated with a variety of long-term effects
on development but:
Not the only important factor in development
Not deterministic
Dutch Study - ✔✔Half of the sample was randomly assigned to condition with
sensitivity training, the other being the control group.
3 months later: more infants of mothers in the experimental group were securely attached
than those in control
Differences in attachment still apparent later in age
Rouge Test - ✔✔A test for self-awareness. Puts a dot of rouge (red powder) on a child's face.
Sees if the children clean the spot off mirror or their own face.
The Self in Adolescence - ✔✔Adolescents start to think of themselves in terms of
abstract characteristics that encompass a variety of concrete characteristics and behaviors.
Adolescents can also conceive of themselves in terms of a variety of selves, depending on the
context.
personal fable - ✔✔a form of adolescent egocentrism that involves beliefs in the
uniqueness of one's own feelings and thoughts
, imaginary audience - ✔✔The belief, stemming from adolescent egocentrism, that
everyone else is focused on the adolescent's appearance and behavior
late adolescence/early adulthood - ✔✔Conception of self becomes more integrated
More internalized personal values, beliefs, and standards
Less emphasis on other's evaluations
Incorporates numerous aspects of self
(values & goals about future, political
& religious beliefs, sexual identity)
A Chinese Experiment - ✔✔One Child Policy
No differences between "onlies" and other children in regard to social behavior and personality.
The larger world affects what goes
on in families, and culture can have a
tremendous effect on families and interactions
among family members
Changes in Family Structure - ✔✔Children much more likely in 2014 to be living with
single parents or with unmarried cohabiting parents than in 2019
Birth Rates for Unmarried Women - ✔✔The proportion of birth for unmarried women in
general rose sharply from 1980 to 2005. However, the rate of births for unmarried teens
has dropped substantially.
