Exam 9: Psychosocial Theories

Infant attachment coded at age 1 is highly predictive of responses to parents at age:

Followers of Freud who focused on relationships reflecting life's primary tasks have made a great impact.

Adults with the insecure attachment style of avoidance are most likely to obsess about lost lovers.

Describe how object relations theories are similar to and different from Freud's ideas.

Following a break-up, people from which group are most likely to turn to family and friends?

___________believed that relationships create the structure of the self.

According to Baldwin's work on attachment:

According to Erikson, the successful negotiation of a stage of development results in:

The one fundamental theme that seems to run through all of the psychosocial theories is that:

The period in which an infant is fused with its mother is called:

Ambivalently attached persons are more likely than others to report that their relationship had been "love at first sight."

Psychosocial therapists attribute behavioral problems to difficulties in:

How did Erikson use play in assessment?

The attachment dimensions of avoidance and anxiety most closely resemble the personality factors of neuroticism and agreeableness.

The primary conflict in the infancy stage of psychosocial development concerns autonomy vs. shame and doubt.

The crisis encountered in the infancy stage of psychosocial development is:

According to Erikson, the conscious experience of self is called:

Mirroring that occurs later in life involves transference, which is:

The concept of epigenesis suggests that there's a readiness for each of Erikson's psychosocial crises at birth.

One of Erikson's most important contributions to psychology was the notion of: