Attachment Flashcards
Care-giver infant interactions A01
- reciprocity = two way interaction of fulfilling needs
- Interactional Synchrony = mirroring of behaviours
Care-giver interactions A02
- Belsky = more reciprocal = more secure
- Melzoff and Moore = infants at 2 weeks display IS (innate)
- Condor and Sander = IS evident in observation of parent child interaction
Care-giver interactions A03
Good
- consistent evidence
- practical appl.
Bad
- Cultural Bias
- Klaus and Kennel - field exp. (skin-to-skin contact)
Stages of attachment (Schaffer) A01
- Asocial (3m) - Indiscriminate (8m) - Specific (8+) stranger anx. - Multiple (10+)
- Role of the father = mother cares / nurtures - father = rough ad tumble play
Stages of attachment (Schaffer) A02
- Schaffer and Emerson = 60 Glasgow babies -sensitive responding most imp. - 65% PA mom / 3% dad / 87% multiple
- Camras = 3m infant smiles more at familiar
- Grossman = Longi study - male fathers = subsidiary role / less imp.
Stages of attachment (Schaffer) A03
Methodology = GOOD as
- observation / SR = qualitative - ecological validity
Methodology = BAD as
- retro/ social desirability
GOOD = supp.
BAD = poor temporal validity 1960s - father / alpha bias - androcentrism
Animal Studies in Attachment AO1
ETHOLOGY = extrapolation
- Harlow = wire food monkey vs cloth comfort = contact comfort / sensitive responding pref.
- Lorenz = imprinting / sensitive period
Animal Studies in Attachment A02
- Harlow = 22hrs on cloth mother // ran to her when stimulated by stress toy
- Lorenz = 13-16hrs post hatch = imprinting = BOWLBYS sp = 1-3 years - control group
- Immelmann = Zebra finches = hatched with Bengalese finches – pref to mate with B not Z. – Long term
Animal Studies in Attachment A03
GOOD
- practical appl. - implications on childcare / fostering etc.
BAD
- extrapolation - oversimplification
- poor ethics - not replicable
- Guiton = imprinting = no irreversible? - chicken rubber gloves
Explanations for Attachment A01
- Bowlby Monotropy: bio predis. / evolut. / adaptive/ survival - social releasers / secure base / crit p/ IWM / CH
- Learning theory D/M: tabula rasa - CC / OC
Explanations for Attachment A02
-LT
Shaffer and Emerson = 39% PA to the one who fed them
Harlow = pref for cloth over food
- M
Ainsworth = SR / secure base
Hazan and Durett = secure = more exploration
Explanations for Attachment A03
GOOD
= Bowlby is influential
= research supp. for CH / IWM (SIMP/ H/S)
= useful
= scientific
BAD
= alternate exp. Kagan Temperament Hyp.
= evolutionary theories less falsifiable - but conclusions drawn from it = useful
Ainsworth - Classification A01
- child and parent security of exploration – stranger and parent stranger anxiety – stranger and child– parent comforts reunion – parent leaves separation anxiety – parent comforts.
Secure = 70% / Avoidant = 20% / Resistant 10%
Ainsworth - Classification A02
Ainsworth = observation – 106 American children – 12 -18m old 70-20-10 (S/A/R)
Main = Longi study - 100% sec babies same 6 years later (75% for avoidant)
Ijendoorn and Kroonenberg = MA 32cc - 8 c - secure = 65% US best type for development
Ainsworth - Classification A03
GOOD
- amazing replicability (Main) est. reliability
- controlled environment - no ev’s
- practical appl. = Cooper (Circle of security projects)
BAD
- Cultural bias - ethnocen / etic / GG / T (also IK = less sec in collectivist cultures)