Question

All of the following are true of Freud’s view of infant-parent bonds EXCEPT:

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is: Freud formulated his views based on careful observation of children.

Explanation:

Freud indeed saw the mother-infant relation as the prototype around which all later close relationships revolve, in fact, Freud proposes that neurosis later emerge in life as a result of many factors including an insatisfactory or pathological relationship of the infant with the first object (the mother).

Freud also claimed that the mother-infant relationship was the most important one and that mentally healthy adults usually had a healthy mother-infant relationship.

Freud also focused on the importance of breastfeeding as a source of oral gratification during the conceptualizations of the psychosexual stages of development.

However....

Freud didn't perform any type of systematic or careful observation of children during the development of his theories.