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Attachment
Question | Answer |
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Reciprocity | a description of how two people interact |
interactional synchrony | mother and infant each reflect the emotions and action of the others and do this in a coordinated (synchronised)way |
who observed the beginnings of interactional synchrony in infants as young as two weeks old | Meltzoff and Moore 1977 |
who performed a study on Glasgow baby's looking at early forms of attachment? | Schaffer and Emerson 1964 |
what are the four stages of attachment proposed by schaffer and Emerson | 1. asocial, 2. indiscriminate 3, specific, 4 multiple |
two animal study's into attachment | Lorenz' geese and Harlows Monkey's |
in attachment behaviour did the monkeys prefer the food mother or the comfort mother? | The comfort mother |
how does learning theory explain attachment | Classical conditioning (obtaining attachment) operant conditioning (maintaining attachment) |
Monotropic | a word sometimes used to describe Bowlby's theory. the mono means one and indicates that one particular attachment is different to all the other and is of significant importance to the child's development. |
mental representations we carry around of our relationship with our primary caregiver. these affect our later relationships as they teach us what they should be like | Internal Working Models |
The more constant and predictable a child's care , the better the quality of their attachment | Bowlby's Law of Continuity |
the effects of every separation from the mother add up, and therefore the safest dose is a zero dose | Bowlby's Law of accumulated Separation |
social releasers (bowlby's monotropic theory) | The innate set of "cute" behaviours like smiling, gripping and cooing that babies have to encourage attention from adults |
who performed the strange situation as an investigation of attachment types and when? | Mary Ainsworth 1969 |
A controlled observation designed to test attachment security. infants are assessed on their response to playing in an unfamiliar room, being left alone, being left with a stranger and reunion with caregiver | The Strange situation |
Moderate separation and stranger anxiety, accept comfort at reunion | Secure attachment |
show little stranger and seperation anxiety, make little effort at reunion | Insecure-avoidant attachment |
huge stranger and seperation anxiety, resist comfort at reunion | Insecure-resistant attachment |
performed a meta-analysis of the strange situation for cultural variations | Van ijzendoorn and kroonenberg |
secure attachment in great Britain (%) | 75% |
secure attachment in china (%) | 50% |
insecure resistant attachment in great Britain (%) | 3% |
insecure resistant attachment in Israel (%) | 30% |
the emotional and developmental consequences of seperation between a child and his/her mother/mother substitute | Maternal Deprivation |
proposed the theory of maternal deprivation and when | Bowlby 1951 |
first 30 months of life | critical period for psychological development (bowlby) |
what did bowlby's 44 thieves study investigate | the link between maternal deprivation and affectioness psychopathy |
institutuionalistaion | a term for the effects of living in a n institution ,e.g. hospital where very little emotional care is provided, for a long period of time |
performed a study of romainian and english adoptees and the effects of institution | Rutter (2011) |
performed a study of the link between attachment and adult romantic/ friendship relationships using a love quiz | Hazan and Shaver 1987 |