An Examination of the Attachment Behaviors of Mothers as Compared

question 23

Multiple Choice

An examination of the attachment behaviors of mothers as compared with fathers indicates that

• A)children usually equally attached to both parents.
• B)children are usually more strongly attached to their mother.
• C)the quality of the two relationships may be quite different.
• D)few infants have strong attachments to their fathers.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; a low standard deviation means that the values tend to be close to the mean, while a high standard deviation means they are spread out over a wider range.

Normal Model

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85th Percentile

A value below which 85% of the data points in a dataset fall, used in statistical analysis to understand distribution.

Snowfall

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