A Mother Who Is Slow in Responding to Her Infant's

question 241

Multiple Choice

A mother who is slow in responding to her infant's cries of distress is most likely to encourage

• A) conservation.
• B) insecure attachment.
• C) object permanence.
• D) egocentrism.

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Definitions:

Pavlov

A Russian physiologist best known for his work in classical conditioning, particularly with the conditioned response of salivation in dogs.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus due to repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus.

Unconditioned Response

An automatic, natural reaction to a stimulus that occurs without prior conditioning.

Rescorla-Wagner

A model proposing that the strength of a conditioned response depends on the unexpectedness of the unconditioned stimulus.