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PRITE: Childhood and Development: Attachment,
Development Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
Q: Adult's patterns of interacting with others predicted by what according to object relations and
attachment theory? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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)
Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: cholinergic
Q: What does "strange situation" in child development is used to assess in attachment theory? (2x)
Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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
Q: infants are more likely to have insecure attachment with poor child care if primary caretaker are
also: Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: unresponsive to their infant's needs
Q: Key characteristic of preschoolers who are securely attached? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: Trust and
reciprocity
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Q: What has been found regarding infant's attachment to their parents? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: pre-school (2-5y/o)
Q: Starting around age 3, children spontaneously use language in which of the following events?
Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: constructing sentences with multiple clauses
vs.
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PRITE: Childhood and Development: Attachment,
Development Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
Q: Adult's patterns of interacting with others predicted by what according to object relations and
attachment theory? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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)
Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: cholinergic
Q: What does "strange situation" in child development is used to assess in attachment theory? (2x)
Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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
Q: infants are more likely to have insecure attachment with poor child care if primary caretaker are
also: Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: unresponsive to their infant's needs
Q: Key characteristic of preschoolers who are securely attached? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: Trust and
reciprocity
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Q: What has been found regarding infant's attachment to their parents? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: pre-school (2-5y/o)
Q: Starting around age 3, children spontaneously use language in which of the following events?
Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A: constructing sentences with multiple clauses
vs.
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