Bowlby Described Attachment Behavior As

question 199

Multiple Choice

Bowlby described attachment behavior as:

• A) any type of behavior that serves to keep someone close who is viewed as more competent.
• B) those behaviors seen in personal friendships.
• C) those behaviors exhibited by the child and the parent when the relationship is positive.
• D) behaviors that signify a need for companionship.

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Definitions:

Central Location

A statistical term referring to the center or typical value of a distribution, often measured by the mean, median, or mode.

Ordinal

Relating to an order or sequence; typically referring to data that can be ranked but the intervals between values are not uniform.

Negatively Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the left side of the distribution is longer or fatter, indicating that the bulk of the values are concentrated on the right.

Proportion

A statistical measure indicating the fraction of a whole that is made up by a certain characteristic or subset.