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Influence of early attachment

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  • Hazan and Shaver
  • Issues with Hazan and Shaver
  • Small correlation between secure and good future
  • Secure = socially skilled
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Institutionalisation

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  • Real world applications
  • No traumatic experiences for confounding variables
  • Generalisability
  • Other romanian orphans = low pretend play, but no recovery
  • Genie - only ever developed some language
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Animal Studies

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  • Ducklings (support for lorenz)
  • Chickens (sexual imprinting)
  • Ethics (Harlow)
  • Generalisability (+ geese are precocial)
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Bowlby: Maternal Deprivation

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  • 44 thieves
  • Issues with 44 thieves
  • Real world applications
  • Replication of thieves (poor predictor)
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Schaffer and Emerson

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  • Natural
  • Sample
  • Data collection
  • Babies can’t move
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Learning Theory of Attachment

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  • Pavlov and Little Albert
  • Harlow
  • Lorenz
  • Schaffer and Emerson (39% not feeder)
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Strange Situation

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  • Inter-rater reliability
  • Lab study
  • Mother’s behaviour
  • Culture bias (imposed etic)
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Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenburg

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  • Large dataset
  • Imposed etic
  • Not equally spred
  • Differences between cultures
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Role of the Father

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  • Play with father matters (secondary)
  • Single or same sex (father not important)
  • Children without fathers less good at school, aggressive
  • Lamb (just as sensitive)
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Bowlby: Monotropy

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  • Schaffer and Emerson (feeders)
  • Schaffer and Emerson (27% of fathers key)
  • Isabella et all (sensitivity)
  • Harlow (no mother = no IWM)
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Interactional Synchrony

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Infants react in time with the caregiver’s speech resulting in a conversational dance

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Reciprocity

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Interaction flows back and forth between caregiver and infant
Turn taking

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Schaffer and Emerson

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60 Glaswegian babies observed
* By 8 months 83% had multiple attachments
* 33% had no attachment with mother or a stronger attachment to someone else

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Pre-attachment

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Asocial stage
0-3 months
learns to prefer humans to objects
No preferences for people

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Indiscriminate

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Diffuse
6 weeks - 7 months
Learns to recognise specific people
still no strong preferences

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Discriminate

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Single stage
7 - 11 months
Forms a strong bond with an individual
Separation anxiety
Stranger anxiety

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Multiple

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9 months +
Forms multiple attachments of different strengths and functions

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Research into caregiver interactions

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  • Can’t talk to infant, have to infer
  • Infants can’t move, not much info to work with
  • Took videos, so can rewatch many times with many observers
  • Lab studies often
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Scaffer and Emerson on Fathers

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  • Mother primary attachment figure for only half of babies
  • A third preferred their father
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Lorenz

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Studied imprinting in geese
Splict clutch in half, raised half - they followed him as they would their mother
Geese automatically attach to the first moving thing they see after hatching
Critical period 13-16 hours after hatching

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Harlow

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Monkeys with a cloth or wire (+milk) mother
Monkeys clung to wire mother when scared, used as base for exploration. Also struggled with relationships later on
Contact comfort most important

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Role of Father

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Most initial research was done into attachment with mothers
Belief that mothers are vital (ie: Bowlby)
Can fathers be stay at home parents?
Should gay couples have children?

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Learning Theory

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Cupboard love
Attach to person that feeds them
Classical and operant conditioning
Mother = feeding = pleasure
Hunger is a drive state that motivates the child to satisfy their need

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Bowlby: Monotropy

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Evolution
* Social releasers (endearing)

One special attachment
* To the person who responds best to the social releasers

Internal working model

Critical period
* First 3 years

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Secure

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  • Strong bond
  • Distressed when separated
  • Easily comforted on return

Healthy cognitive and emotional development

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Insecure - Avoidant

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  • No separation anxiety
  • Can be comforted by a stranger
  • Avoid social interaction and intimacy
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Insecure - Resistant

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  • Uneasy around caregiver
  • Extreme separation anxiety
  • Can’t be comforted by strangers
  • Resist comfort by caregiver
  • Accept and reject social interaction and intimacy
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Strange Situation

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  1. Caregiver and child in room
  2. Stranger enters
  3. Caregiver leaves
  4. Caregiver returns, stranger leaves
  5. Caregiver leaves
  6. Stranger returns
  7. Caregiver returns, stranger leaves
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Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg

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Meta analysis of 32 strange situation studies
* West Germany most Avoidant, then Netherlands
* Israel most Resistant, then Japan

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Separation

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Child is away from caregiver for a relatively short time

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Deprivation

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Loss of an attachment figure - long term

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Privation

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Never experiencing an attachment
ie: Romanian orphans

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Bowlby: Maternal Deprivation

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Deprivation from the main caregiver during the critical period will have harmful effects on the child’s emotional, social, intellectual and physical development
* Separation anxiety
* Affectionless psychopathy
* Problem behaviour (clinginess)
* Dwarfism
* Low IQ

Consequences not reversible

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Romanian Orphanages

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  • Rutter
  • Privation
  • Average IQ of 63
  • Older when adopted = less intellectual development
  • Effects of privation can be reversed, but only when young
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Internal Working Model

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Cognitive schema of attachment learned from primary caregiver.
Shapes the kind of love you think you deserve.

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Cycle of Privation

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Suggested by research.
Children who experience privation go on to have difficulties in caring for their own children. This may cause privation in their children

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