As Researchers Continued to Study the Children Who Were Part

question 41

Multiple Choice

As researchers continued to study the children who were part of the Minnesota Parent-Child Project as they entered adulthood, the researchers realized that

• A) they already had all the information that they needed to predict adult adjustment by the time the children were age 6.
• B) to their surprise early attachment had little or no effect on children's later social development.
• C) attachment predicted early social relationships, but was not related to any of the other development outcomes they studied.
• D) attachment set the initial conditions for peer relationships, but other experiences played an important role in how the children developed.

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Definitions:

Strangers

Individuals who are unknown or unfamiliar to one another, often highlighting the potential for neither positive nor negative expectations in initial interactions.

Critical Distance

The ability to analyze and assess a subject or situation objectively without bias.

Functional Autonomy

The concept that behaviors can become detached from their original motives and gain new ones; often discussed in psychology and behaviorism.

Verstehen

A method in sociology for understanding social behavior by putting oneself in the place of others.