AQA A Level Psychology Year 1 - Attachments MCQ Already Passed

AQA A Level Psychology Year 1 - Attachments MCQ Already Passed Which of the following best describes reciprocity? a) A walk b) A chat c) A dance d) A fight c) A dance During interaction, the mother's and infant's signals: a) Synchronise b) Differentiate c) Slow down d) Stay the same a) Synchronise Which of the following activities is more common in fathers than mothers? a) Smiling b) Holding c) Imitate d) Playing d) Playing Which of these is a strength of research into early interaction? a) it is a socially sensitive topic b) It is easy to interpret infant behaviour c) Controlled observations capture fine detail d) Observations tell us the functions of behaviour c) Controlled observations capture fine detail In the 1964 study which of the following best describes the participants? a) 60 18-months-old girls from Glasgow b) 60 middle-class children and fathers from Edinburgh c) 30 middle-class boys and their families from Glasgow d) 60 middle-class children and their families from Glasgow d) 60 middle-class children and their families from Glasgow Schaffer and Emerson assessed what in the infants? a) Stranger anxiety b) Separation anxiety c) Separation and stranger anxiety d) Zombie-related anxiety c) Separation and stranger anxiety In which of these stages does a child first display social behaviour towards all adults? a) The asocial stage b) The indiscriminate stage c) The specific attachment stage d) The multiple attachment stage b) The indiscriminate stage At what age do children usually start to form a specific attachment? a) 2 months b) 7 months c) 11 months d) 18 months b) 7 months What is the phenomenon in which early contact influences mate preference called? a) Imprinting b) Contact comfort c) Deprivation d) Sexual imprinting d) Sexual imprinting Which of these behaviours describes Harlow's monkeys that were maternally deprived? a) Aggressive b) Sociable c) Socially skilled d) Good parents a) Aggressive 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 b) Wire mother from birth 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 a) Clear applications to humans According to classical conditioning, which of the following best describes the attachment figure: a) An unconditioned stimulus b) An unconditioned response c) A conditioned stimulus d) All of the above c) A conditioned stimulus 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) A primary drive a) Negative reinforcement In learning theory, which of the following is the focus of the primary drive? a) Food b) Love c) Comfort d) Aggression a) Food 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 a primary drive d) They focus on the role of interactional synchrony b) There is counter-evidence from human studies 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 caregiver only d) The primary attachment figure must be the biological mother a) One attachment is seen as different and more important than others Which of the following is probably NOT a social releaser? a) Smiling b) Cooing c) Gripping d) Projectile vomitting d) Projectile vomitting Internal working models have an influence on which of the following? a) Romantic relationships b) Relationships with children c) Relationships with friends d) All of these d) All of these According to Bowlby, the critical period in humans lasts for approximately how long? a) One month b) Twelve months c) Two years d) Sixteen years c) Two years The Strange Situation can be best described as what kind of study? a) Naturalistic observation b) Controlled observation c) Laboratory experiment d) Self-report b) Controlled observation 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 to play d) Reunion with the primary attachment figure c) Being left alone to play 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 c) They are happy at reunion with the primary attachment figure Which of these is a strength of Ainsworth's attachment types? a) Influence of temperament b) Inter-rater reliability of the Strange Situation c) Cross-cultural validity of the Strange Situation d) Additional attachment types appear to exist b) Inter-rater reliability of the Strange Situation In van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg's study, which country had the highest rate of secure attachment? a) Israel b) USA c) Britain d) China c) Britain In van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg's study, which country had the highest rate of insecure-avoidant attachment? a) Germany b) Sweden c) Britain d) Japan a) Germany 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 b) Atypical attachment a) Insecure-resistant attachment Which is not true of cross-cultural attachment comparisons? a) Secure attachment is the most common type in every country b) There is more variation within countries than between them c) Some attachment behaviours seem to have different meanings in different countries d) Some countries have particularly bad parents d) Some countries have particularly bad parents 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 attachment figures to feed the infant d) Loss of care of the primary attachment figure without of a substitute d) Loss of care of the primary attachment figure without of a substitute 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 c) 30 months 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 d) There may be bias because Bowlby assessed affectionless psychopathy and deprivation 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 d) Serial murder 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 c) A follow-up of Romanian orphans looking at social and intellectual development At four years: a) A negative correlation was found between age of adoption and intellectual development b) a) A positive correlation was found between age of adoption and social-emotional development c) a) A positive correlation was found between age of adoption and intellectual development d) No correlations of any sort a) A negative correlation was found between age of adoption and intellectual development 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 b) Indiscriminate attachment behaviour Which of these is an advantage of the Bucharest Early Intervention project? a) Better ethics than the ERA study b) A larger sample than ERA study c) Random allocations to conditions d) Children were fostered rather than adopted c) Random allocations to conditions 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 predict perfectly what sort of relationships people will have d) They determine social development and are unalterable a) They serve as templates for future relationships Which attachment type is most likely to be associated with bullying? a) Securely attached b) Insecure-resistant c) Insecure-avoidant d) Disinhibited c) Insecure-avoidant 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 b) Insecure-resistant Which of these studies does not support an important role for internal working models? a) Myron-Wilson and Smith (1998) b) Zimmerman et al. (2000) c) McCarthy (1999) d) Bailey et al. (2007) d) Bailey et al. (2007)