In Designing the Strange Situation, Mary Ainsworth and Her Colleagues

question 89

Multiple Choice

In designing the Strange Situation, Mary Ainsworth and her colleagues reasoned that securely attached infants and toddlers

• A) use the parent as a secure base from which to explore in an unfamiliar setting.
• B) are just as comforted by an unfamiliar adult as by the parent.
• C) combine anger and clinginess when reunited with a parent who has left the room for a time.
• D) do not show distress when the parent leaves the room.

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Definitions:

Knowledge Base

An organized repository of information or data that can be consulted and retrieved for specific purposes.

Functional Fixedness

A problem-solving phenomenon in which people have difficulty in seeing alternate uses for common objects.

String Problem

A type of problem-solving task that involves finding solutions or patterns within sequences of characters or symbols.