Harlow's experiments with infant monkeys gave support to the hypothesis that attachments form through
A) food as a reinforcer.
B) imprinting to the first moving object seen by the infant.
C) close contact with a soft, comforting person or thing.
D) oral gratification through feeding.
C) close contact with a soft, comforting person or thing. The critical ingredient in attachment formation is contact comfort.
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Psychologists measure the correlation between aptitude test scores and school grades in order to assess the ________ of the aptitude test.
a. reliability b. standardization c. normal distribution d. factor analysis e. validity
Most cognitive psychologists prefer the prototype model of perception to the template
model of perception because prototypes are a. actual rather than idealized patterns. b. more flexible than templates. c. representations of only one object. d. consistent with Gestalt laws of organization. e. proven to have stronger cross-cultural validity.