Deck 7: Attachment Theory

Question 1

Attachment theory is a developmental model of:

A) Brain chemistry
B) Intrapsychic structures
C) Interpersonal relationships
D) Unconscious emotional experiences

Answer 1

Interpersonal relationships

Question 2

Attachment relationships are based on __________ experienced by an infant.

A) Early caregiving
B) Early discipline
C) Early Feeding
D) Early play

Answer 2

Early caregiving

Question 3

Infants learn emotional regulation by caregivers __________ regulating the infant's emotional state.

A) Permanently
B) Temporarily
C) Internally
D) Externally

Answer 3

Externally

Question 4

What are examples of sensory environmental triggers?

A) Sound and temperature
B) Playing and sleeping
C) Sleeping and feeding
D) Cooing and babbling

Question 5

For optimal development, an infant's caregiver must demonstrate attunement at least how often?

A) 100% of the time
B) 50% of the time
C) 66% of the time
D) 75% of the time

Question 6

In order for an infant to develop self-regulation of emotion, the child must have an empathically attuned relationship with a caregiver within:

A) The first 1-6 months of life
B) The first 6-12 months of life
C) The first 12-24 months of life
D) The first 24-36 months of life

Question 7

In optimal developments, how many attachment relationships should a child have?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 5
D) 7

Question 8

When an individual becomes distanced from an attachment figure, what pattern of distress occurs?

A) Protest, clinging to figure, sadness
B) Protest, anxiety, depression
C) Protest, depression and despair, detachment
D) Protest, avoidance of figure, anger

Question 9

When two-year-old Susie is away from her mother at daycare, she brings a piece of her mother's scarf. This provides her comfort when she is away from her. What is the mother's scarf?

A) Attachment figure
B) Translational object
C) Transitional object
D) Safety object

Question 10

The foundation of attachment theory was developed by:

A) Sigmund Freud
B) Carl Rogers
C) John Bowlby
D) Mary Ainsworth

Question 11

The foundation of attachment theory was developed from clinical work with:

A) Older adults
B) Juvenile delinquents
C) Foster children
D) Young infants

Question 12

Who developed a way to measure attachment?

A) Mary Ainsworth
B) Carl Rogers
C) John Bowlby
D) Mary Main

Question 13

The Strange Situation measures:

A) Sequence of transitional objects
B) Sequence of proximity of attachment figures
C) Sequence of attachment and detachment
D) Sequence of protest, despair, and detachment

Question 14

All of the following are attachment styles discovered by Ainsworth except:

A) Avoidant
B) Ambivalent
C) Secure
D) Attainable

Question 15

Who found in their longitudinal research that an infant's attachment classification during the "Strange Situation" was correlated with the child's attachment orientation at age six years?

A) Main
B) Ainsworth
C) Bowlby
D) Rogers

Question 16

Which of the following attachment styles was not one of the original attachment styles discovered by Ainsworth, but was later discovered by Main?

A) Disorganized
B) Disoriented
C) Detached
D) Distorted

Question 17

What is the AAI?

A) Observation system assessing parent-adolescent interactions
B) Observation system assessing parent-infant interactions
C) Semi-structured protocol assessing attachment in school-age children
D) Semi-structured protocol assessing attachment in late adolescence and adulthood

Question 18

The attachment classifications that are currently used are based on the work of all of the following researchers except:

A) Blehar
B) Ainsworth
C) Main
D) Bowlby

Question 19

How many attachment styles are there?

A) 4
B) 2
C) 10
D) 8

Question 20

As an adult, an individual with a(n) _______________ attachment holds positive views of themselves and others.

A) Narcissistic
B) Optimistic
C) Ambivalent
D) Secure

Question 21

As an adult, an individual with a(n) _______________ attachment report lower self-esteem and perceive themselves more negatively in intimate relationships.

A) Poor
B) Anxious Ambivalent
C) Avoidant
D) Disorganized

Question 22

As an adult, an individual with a(n) _______________ attachment report higher self-esteem and hold negative views of others in relationships.

A) Ambivalent
B) Anxious
C) Neglected
D) Avoidant

Question 23

Peter Fonagy is credited for creating the concept of mentalization. What is this?

A) Awareness of one's own mental state
B) Awareness of oneself as a psychological being
C) Denial of experiencing a mental illness
D) Overcoming a mental illness

Question 24

Which of the following is not one of the intersubjective experiences of self in the world?

A) Posttense
B) Pretense
C) Mentalizing
D) Psychic equivalent

Question 25

Addiction has been called the feeling disease because of the addict's use of substances to manage __________.

A) Attachment
B) Thoughts
C) Behaviors
D) Emotions

Question 26

Caregivers directly impact brain structure and oscillatory functioning related to emotion regulation.

Question 27

In order for an infant to develop a healthy attachment to a caregiver, the relationship must demonstrate consistently empathically attuned experiences over time.

Question 28

Early attachment relationships do not necessarily influence later relationships in an individual's life.

Question 29

The desire to attach to a caregiver is specific to US culture.

Question 30

It is believed that the quality of caregiving is more important than quantity of caregiving.

Question 31

Infant nonverbal behavior may predict internal representational patterns of attachment.

Question 32

In a secure attachment, infants would not be distressed when separated with their mother.

Question 33

Children with anxious-ambivalent attachment styles grow up to be adults that rely on emotion-focused coping strategies when faced with stress in relationships.

Question 34

Infants that exhibit avoidant attachment do not exhibit distress when the mother leaves or when the mother returns.

Question 35

Attachment styles dictate how a person regulates emotion.

Question 36

What are the main tenants of attachment theory?

Question 37

Describe the Strange Situation and what it measures.

Question 38

What does each attachment style correlate with?

Question 39

Describe the secure attachment style.

Question 40

Describe the anxious ambivalent attachment style.

Question 41

Describe the avoidant attachment style.