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Questions:

• Explain what is meant by attachment and how it can be distinguished from other relationships?
• Identify four phases that infants pass through while they develop an attachment to their parents.
• Contrast psychoanalytic, learning, and ethological theories of attachment.
• Describe Harry Harlow's primate study on the importance of feeding for the formation of attachment, and summarize the main conclusions from that research.
• Describe four patterns of attachment, and indicate the proportion of children who fit each pattern.
• Describe how the "strange situation" procedure is used to assess the security of an attachment relationship. How do children with different attachment statuses respond?
• Identify aspects of caregiving that promote secure, resistant, avoidant or disorganized attachment relationships between an infant and his or her caregivers.
• Describe characteristics that are seen in later childhood when a child has formed a secure, resistant, avoidant, or disorganized attachment with his or her caregivers during infancy.
• How stable is attachment status over time? What factors have the biggest impact on its stability? Provide examples.
• What is temperament? What temperamental dimensions have been identified?
• Describe the three temperamental profiles identified by Thomas and Chess.
• List three guidelines for adapting parenting techniques to different child temperaments.
• Provide an example that illustrates a good fit between a child's temperament and the pattern of child-rearing used by his or her parents, and contrast this with a poor fit.
• Distinguish between caregiving styles of fathers and mothers.
• How does child care affect the relationship between parents and children?
• Identify and describe the child care factors that influence child outcomes and discuss what those outcomes are.
• Describe the changes in parent-child attachment during adolescence. What attachment statuses have been observed and what effect do they have on an adolescence adjustment?
• Describe what an internal working model is, and describe the events that would promote positive or negative working models of self and others.
• Describe adult attachment statuses. How can they be distinguished from one another?
• Is there continuity between early attachments with caregivers and later romantic relationships? Why or why not.