Ch. 4 How Important are Parents

Question 1

Moderator variable

Answer 1

affects the strength or direction of a relation between two other variables

Question 2

Mediator variable

Answer 2

changes how or why two variables are associated

Question 3

Historical Evidence about Parental influenced: Experiment of nature

Answer 3

○ Feral children- raised with no human interaction
○ Children in orphanages and institutions

Question 4

Historical Evidence about parental influenced: Animal Studies (Ethology)

Answer 4

○ Imprinting (K. Lorenz)
○ Social deprivation (H. Harlow)

Question 5

Attachment “Disorder” is the result of…

Answer 5

social neglect or “pathogenic” care
○ Limits child’s ability to form healthy attachments

Question 6

Reactive attachment disorder (RAD)

Answer 6

• Social withdrawal
• Refuse to attach

Question 7

Disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED)

Answer 7

Easily approaches strangers
Appearance of quick attachment

Question 8

Internal Working Models

Answer 8

Mental representations of the availability of the attachment figure and what to do when the attachment system is activated

Question 9

Guiding Developmental Trajectories

Answer 9

• Establishing Trajectories
• Mediating Trajectories
• Modifying (the speed of) Trajectories

Question 10

Establishing Trajectories

Answer 10

○ Create pathways for child’s development, often based on parental long-term goal
○ Help promote progress on the trajectories by encouraging, supporting

Question 11

Mediating Trajectories

Answer 11

○ Pre-Arming
○ Concurrent Mediation
○ Debriefing

Question 12

Modifying (the speed of) Trajectories

Answer 12

○ Acceleration
○ Deceleration