Attachment Flashcards

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Effects of institutionalisation

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Physical underdevelopment
Intellectual under functioning
Disinhibited attachment
Poor parenting

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Animal studies of attachment

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Lorenz and Harlow

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Lorenz study

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Clutch of gosling eggs and divided them into 2 groups

One group hatched with mother and others placed in an incubator

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Harlow study

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Created 2 wire mothers
Eight infant mothers studied for 165 days
4 monkeys fed by cloth covered mother and 4 fed by wired monkey
Measurements were made of the time infants spent with the mothers
Observations made of the infants responses

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Learning theory of attachment

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Classical and operant conditioning which explains behaviour in terms of learning rather than any inborn tendencies

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Monotropic theory of attachment

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Bowlby

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Bowlby theory AO1

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Attachment figures
More time spent with mother 
Internal working model (blueprint for future attachment)
Sensitive period (3-6 weeks)
Role of social releases
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Bowlby AO3

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Socially sensitive - pressure on mother, underestimates father and other caregivers
Research into deprivation Rutter et al
Minnesota parent child studies support hypothesis
Alternative (temperament hypothesis)

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