1 - Attachment Flashcards
Name 2 caregiver-infant interactions in humans
Reciprocity
Interactional Synchrony
Name 3 stages of attachment as identified by Schaffer (in order)
Asocial
(Indiscriminate attachment)
Specific/Discriminate Attachment
Multiple attachment
Name 2 researchers that studies attachment in animals and the animals they studied
Harlow (Rhesus Monkeys)
Lorenz (Geese)
Name 2 key processes in the learning explanations of attachment
Classical Conditioning
Operant conditioning
Name 5 key concepts of Bowlby’s explanation of attachment
Social releasers
Innate predisposition
Adaptive
Internal Working model
Monotropy
Critical period
Name the 3 attachment types identified by Ainsworth using the strange situation and the percentage of each type she found with her original sample.
A - Insecure Avoidant (22%)
B - Secure (66%)
C - Insecure resistant (12%)
Name the 4 behaviours observed during the strange situation.
Willingness to explore (Safe base)
Stranger Anxiety
Separation Anxiety
Reunion Behaviour
Name the countries that had the highest and lowest of each type of attachment in Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg meta analysis
Type
Highest (%)
Lowest (%)
A -
Germany
Japan
B -
Sweden/GB
China
C -
Japan
Germany
Name 3 effects of maternal deprivation identified by Bowlby
Affectionless psychopathy
lower intelligence
emotional maladjustment
mental health problems
Name 2 effects of institutionalisation
disinhibited attachment
Physical underdevelopment
intellectual underfunctioning
poor parenting
Name a research study that investigated the influence of early attachments of later relationships.
Hazan and Shaver
