Attachment questions mocks

Question 1

Researcher A found that young animals seemed to attach for comfort rather than for food.

Researcher B found that mobile newborn animals would follow first large moving object they saw.

Give name of researchers and type of animal studies by researcher (2 marks)

Answer 1

Research A:
Harlow studied Rhesus monkeys

Research B:
Lorenz studied Goslings

Question 2

The researched collected quantitative data using the Strange Situation. Then decided to collect qualitative data by conducting interviews with parents of infants.

Describe two differences between qualitative and quantitative data?

Answer 2

Quantitative data: Data consists of numbers and statistic
Qualitative data: Data consists of long and comprehensive worded answers/

Quantitative data: Easier to analyse
Qualitative data: Longer to analyse

Quantitative data: Measured objectively
Qualitative data: Measured subjectively.

Question 3

Explain limitations of Bowlby’s theory on maternal deprivation (not his 44 thieves experiment but his theory)

Answer 3

Koluchova challenged Bowlby’s theory that effects of maternal deprivation are permenant and irreversible.

2 Czech twin brothers experienced extreme maternal deprivation (mum died, step mother severely neglected them: kept in small unheated cellar, starved, beaten, isolated) and experienced privation.

After being rescued they were placed in loving nurturing foster home. By teenage years, they completely recovered showing normal intellectual and social development.