Attachment That Occurs During a Critical Period Is Based on a Stimulus

question 153

Multiple Choice

Attachment that occurs during a critical period is based on a stimulus. What is the term for this stimulus?

• A) imprinting
• B) maturation
• C) the fixed response
• D) the maternal instinct

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Definitions:

Traditional Sense

Pertaining to customs, practices, or ideas that have been inherited from ancestors or established in the past.

Mestizo

A person of mixed European and Indigenous American descent, commonly used in Latin America.

Mexican Americans

A demographic group in the United States with ancestral ties to Mexico, representing a diverse range of cultural, socioeconomic, and personal identities.

Chicano/a

A term used to describe Americans of Mexican descent, typically associated with a sense of cultural pride and resistance against oppression.