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1
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Uncertainty is…

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Expensive

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Language development reduces uncertainty by…

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decoding sounds to figure out the behaviour of people

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Physical development reduces uncertainty by….

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learning to operate our body

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Evolution…

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Process of adapting to environment over time

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Learning about the world is…

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Cognitive development

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Social development is…

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getting help from others

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Altricial…

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Can not survive on own from birth. (humans)

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hormone that has evidence of social bonding

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Oxytocin

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A process in which animals instinctively become attached to the fist moving thing after birth

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Imprinting

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Konrad Lorenz conducted research on…

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Imprinting - ducklings following him over the mother duck when he was the first moving thing present after hatching

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Critical period

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Starts and ends abruptly - something can only happen in this time ie. imprinting

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Sensitive period

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starts and end gradually - something can still be learnt after this period, just not as well ie. learning a language

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The name of the theory that states attachment is formed through food…

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Psychoanalytic theory - Sigmund Freud

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Name of theory that states attachment is about fulfilling an important social need

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Social needs hypothesis

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Harlow is responsible for research about…

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Attachment in rhesus monkeys. Is it a social need, or need for food. Resulted in evidence against the Psychoanalytic theory

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Bowlbys theory was that attachment is…

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Evolutionary and carried out by an innate behavioural system

17
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Balance between closeness and exploration are signs of

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Secure base attachment

18
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A universal characteristic of infants is that they all…

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become attached to a caregiver

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It is an _______ that the quality of care shapes an infants predictions about caregivers

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individual difference

20
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Expectations about caregivers create an _______ that is then _______ to how all relationships work

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internal working model, generalized

21
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The ‘strange situations’ test was researched conducted by _______ ______ that theorised ___________

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Mary Ainsworth, when an infant is distressed, an attachment system is activated

22
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The following examples indicate what type of attachment?
- crying when caregiver leaves
- seeking to be near caregiver
- not soothed by stranger
- soothed by caregiver
- actions oriented towards caregiver

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Secure attachment

23
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The following examples indicate what type of attachment?
- not distressed when caregiver leaves
- avoids caregiver when they return
- no difference in behaviour toward caregiver and stranger, including ability to be soothed

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Insecure Avoidant attachment

24
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The following examples indicate what type of attachment?
- infants are least likely to explore
- most distressed when caregiver leaves
- stays close to caregiver when they return
- Avoids stranger

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Insecure Resistant Attachment

25
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The following examples indicate what type of attachment?
-Incoherent or bizzare behaviour

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Disorganized attachment

26
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Parents that are consistently sensitive and responsive create children with what attachment style?

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Secure

27
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Parents that are consistently insensitive and unresponsive create children with what attachment style?

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Insecure avoidant

28
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Parents that are inconsistently sensitive and responsive create children with what attachment style?

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Insecure resistant

29
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Children that are unsafe develop what attachment style

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Disorganised

30
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Executive functions are…

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A group of cognitive abilities that help us organise information to make good decisions

31
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The 5 key executive functions are…

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Inhibition
Task switching
Working memory
Attentional control
Emotional regulation

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Factors that can affect executive functions are

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Culture
Brain maturing
Parenting
Environmental contingencies

33
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Precocial

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Can survive on own from birth

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