MsSAnd Her Infant Just Participated in an Attachment Study

question 30

Multiple Choice

Ms.S.and her infant just participated in an attachment study.First,Ms.S.was interviewed to determine how she represented her attachment relationship with her own early caregivers.Second,the researchers assessed the quality of her baby's attachment to Ms.S.They are seeking to identify relationships between a parent's working model of attachment and the quality of the attachment the infants form with them.This attachment study is part of which research tradition?

• A)The nuclear family tradition.
• B)The peer/romantic partner tradition.
• C)The generativity tradition.
• D)The intimacy tradition.

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles of a data set, representing the middle 50%.

Third Quartile

The value below which 75% of the data fall, often represented as Q3 in statistics.

First Quartile

The 25th percentile of a data set, below which lies 25% of the data.

Skewness

A measure of the shape of a data distribution. Data skewed to the left result in negative skewness; a symmetric data distribution results in zero skewness; and data skewed to the right result in positive skewness.