The "Adult Attachment Interview" Developed by Mary Main Is Designed

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Multiple Choice

The "Adult Attachment Interview" developed by Mary Main is designed to

• A) elicit memories of childhood attachment.
• B) determine how attached parents are to one another.
• C) determine the strength of a parent's attachment to a child.
• D) screen potential adoptive parents for their capacity to form attachments with children.

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Definitions:

Automaticity

The ability to perform tasks without conscious thought or attention, typically as a result of learning and repetition.

Stepparent Families

Families where one or both parents have children from previous relationships but have formed a new family unit through marriage or partnership.

Single-Parent Families

Households headed by only one parent, who is responsible for raising children.

Scaffolding

An educational technique that provides support to students by breaking learning into chunks and providing a structure to those chunks.