PSYC 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Extraversion And Introversion, Agreeableness, Assortative Mating

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Derringer Jaime

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Feel free to work on this study guide with others, including in-person and on- line sharing. What are the fundamental assumptions of bowlby"s attachment theory: he studied the behaviors of children separated from their parents during wwii. Observed that children experienced profound despair and would go to great lengths to reestablish contact with their parents. Bowlby predicted that humans have a motivational system designed to maintain physical closeness to attachment figures. Extreme dependence of human infants should have led to selection pressures favoring behaviors that promote closeness between infant and an attachment figure. Repeated experiences with attachment figures form the basis of internal working models of attachment: what were the three main categories of infant attachment that. What kind of parenting leads to each of the three categories of infant attachment: securely attached (66%): explores room when mother is there, sometimes they went to the stranger to be held after mother left.