Affluent Students Are Less  Affected by School Failure Than Lower-Class Youths

question 16

True/False

Affluent students are less  affected by school failure than lower-class youths.

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Definitions:

Contact Motive

A psychological need or drive to seek and maintain physical or emotional closeness with others.

Cloth "Mother"

A reference to Harry Harlow's experiments with rhesus monkeys, where he demonstrated the importance of caregiving and companionship in social and cognitive development.

Wire "Mother"

A term referring to an experiment by Harry Harlow, showing infant monkeys preferred a cloth surrogate mother over a wire one that provided food, highlighting the importance of comfort and security.

Harry Harlow

An American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which highlighted the importance of caregiving and companionship.