When Billie takes her son, Joel, to the park one day, he demands to be held and does not want to get down to play on the equipment. When another young mother comes over and strikes up a conversation with Billie, Joel hides his head in his mother's skirt, and refuses to play with the other woman's child. Eventually, Billie leaves Joel with the other woman briefly so she can buy drinks for all of
them at the concession stand. Joel screams and cries, and is inconsolable. Joel's attachment relationship with his mother is best characterized as
a. secure.
b. resistant.
c. avoidant.
d. disorganized-disoriented.
b
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Children who had secure attachments as infants
a. tend to have more satisfying later social relationships. b. have more fights with friends when they are 3 and 4 years old. c. show high levels of hostility as preschoolers. d. tend to have lower-quality friendships as children.
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