The organized mental patterns that represent behaviors and actions and serve as a foundation for Piaget's cognitive development theory are known as

The ethological theory of attachment

A) suggests that the infant's emotional tie to the mother is the foundation of all later relationships. B) recognizes the infant's emotional tie to the caregiver as an evolved response that promotes survival. C) emphasizes the importance of feeding as the central context in which caregivers and babies build close emotional bonds. D) suggests that infants learn to prefer their mother because she functions as both a primary caregiver and a social partner.

Joe wants his boss to think he's a hard worker. Whenever his boss walks by his office he starts to type furiously on his computer. Joe is engaging in which of the following?

a. False consensus b. Self-affirmation c. Impression management d. Post-decisional dissonance