According to attachment theory, how does childhood attachment style influence adult attachment style and adult relationships?
What will be an ideal response?
The relationships that small children develop with their caregivers, most likely their parents, and especially their mothers, serves as a model for future relationships. Those who had secure relationships with their caregivers will develop healthy, secure adult relationships. Those who had insecure relationships are likely to develop unhealthy, i.e., avoidant or ambivalent, relationships with others as adults.
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Research on nightmares suggests that they
a. are more likely to be experienced by children than by adults. b. are not related to real-life experiences. c. occur on average about once per year in undergraduate students. d. increase in likelihood as one gets older.
Laypersons often confuse dissociative identity disorder with __________
a. autism b. bipolar illness c. dissociative amnesia d. schizophrenia