One Criticism of Ainsworth's Study on Attachment Styles Was That

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Multiple Choice

One criticism of Ainsworth's study on attachment styles was that

• A) she only studied the pairing of boys and their fathers, and thus attachment might be different for boys and mothers, or girls and either parent.
• B) the distress caused to the children when separated from their mothers was too great and thus the research bordered on being unethical.
• C) the design of the research was artificial and may not reflect real-world behavior.
• D) She falsified data in order to find support for her hypothesized "four styles" of infantal attachment.

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