Which of the Following Statements Is True About Attachment

question 101

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true about attachment?

• A) Contemporary research indicates that an infant's emotional tie to the mother is the foundation of all later relationships.
• B) Because feeding is an important context for building a relationship, attachment depends on hunger satisfaction.
• C) Although the parent-infant bond is vitally important, later development is influenced not just by early attachment experiences but also by the continuing quality of the parent-child relationship.
• D) Rhesus monkeys reared with terry-cloth and wire-mesh "surrogate mothers" clung to whichever mother-substitute held their bottle and fed them, regardless of the substitute's softness.

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Definitions:

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