One Day You Overhear Two Scientists Talking

question 2

Multiple Choice

One day you overhear two scientists talking. "I study adult attachment style," one of them says. What does he or she study, specifically?

• A) People's tendency to anxiously anticipate, readily perceive, and overreact to rejection from relationship partners
• B) People's characteristic beliefs, attitudes, and expectations about the self as worthy or unworthy of love, other people as available or unavailable, and relationships as rewarding or punishing
• C) People's beliefs, values, and expectations about love and the nature of romantic relationships
• D) People's assumptions about the relationship experiences of others

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