Adult Attatchment L4 Flashcards
What is the attachment behavioural system?
Response to threat, attachment related behaviours like proximity seeking and crying.
What is the exploration system?
Active when attachment needs are being met, encourages exploration.
The strange situation outlined which 3 attachment types in infancy?
Secure - soothed by care giver
Insecure Ambivalent - unaffected
Insecure Avoidant - not easily soothed
(Disorganized - when mother is threat and carer)
Secure children have been found to be____ in an educational setting. ( 3 things ).
better school readiness
more engaged in joint reading
higher academic performance
Hazan & Shaver converted ainsworths 3 infant attachment types into 4 adult attachment types called the ECR (experiances in close relationships), what are they and what two dimensions are they measured along.
Anxiety and Avoidance lo anxiety lo avoidance = secure lo anxiety hi avoidance = dismissing hi anxiety lo avoidance = preoccupied hi anxiety hi avoidance = fearfull
Outline Fraley & Shavers airport study.
Couples were observed and given attatchment assessment quizzes. Found clear evidence for 4 adult attachment types, separating couples displayed more attatchment behaviour. Shows attatchment is a dynamic process that transfers into adulthood.
Our attachment network in an internal working model of attatchment, made up of
Global and local schema.
Attatchment types can be ____ and _____ primed, for short term.
Implicitly, Explicitly.
