Discuss conditions that lead to insecure attachment between infants and caregivers. What might be done to improve the conditions?
What will be an ideal response?
Stress, mistreatment, mental illness, controlling behavior, and alcoholism are among
parent behaviors that may lead to an insecure attachment. An infant with a difficult
or slow-to-warm-up temperament may develop an insecure attachment. Getting help
with parental behaviors and understanding and guiding the infant patiently and
positively could improve the conditions.
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a) Bernard is probably right on target as accuracy is not related to confidence in judgments. b) Bernard is probably not very accurate as he is not very confident about his impression of her. c) Bernard is probably accurate given that people with low confidence in their impression underrate their performance. d) Bernard's impression is probably as accurate as anyone else's, regardless of their confidence level.
Bud does not feel that he can leave for work each morning until he spends hours checking and rechecking
to make sure that he has shut off all the appliances and locked the windows and doors of his home. Bud's behaviors represent ______. a. delusions c. obsessions b. a specific phobia d. compulsions