Module 3: Attachment Styles

Question 1

What shapes a babies attachment style?

Answer 1

Infants interactions with their caregivers shape their attachment styles: Their learned orientations toward relationships with others

Question 2

What is the definition of “Attachment Styles”?

Answer 2

An individual’s learned orientations toward relationships with others

Question 3

What are the four main attachment styles?

Answer 3

Secure: Trusting and Relaxed
Preoccupied: Needy and Jealous
Dismissing: indifferent and independent
Fearful: Sus

Question 4

What are the two different avoidant attachment styles?

Answer 4

Anxiety about abandonment: The worry that others will find us unworthy and leave us
Avoidance of Intimacy: The ease and trust with which we accept interdependent intimacy with others

Question 5

What is the difference between sex differences and gender differences?

Answer 5

Sex: Refer to biological distinctions
Gender: Refer to social and psychological distinctions created by our culture and upbringing

Question 6

Can attachment styles change throughout your life?

Answer 6

Yes, through new experiences
attachment styles can be unlearned or changed through a variety of life experiences

Question 7

Are most sex differences between men and women large or small?

Answer 7

Small, variation within each sex is greater than any variation between the sexes

Question 8

On average do gay or straight couples have more satisfying relationships?

Answer 8

Gay, bisexual people tend to have less satisfying (Due to societal pressure, differencing sexual orientation to your partner)

Question 9

What are the 5 big personality traits?

Answer 9

open-mindedness
Extraversion
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Negative Emotionality