Attachment 2.1

Question 1

Temperament

Answer 1

an aspect of personality concerned with emotional dispositions and reactions and their speed and intensity

Question 2

Reactivity

Answer 2

Infant’s excitability and responsiveness

Question 3

Regulation

Answer 3

what the infant does to control its reactivity

Question 4

What are the temperament traits?

Answer 4

1-Extraversion (sociability)
2-Neuroticism (experience fear or anger)
3-Conscientiousness (attempts to regulate stimulations)

Question 5

Warmth

Answer 5

connected to child’s social and emotional needs

Question 6

Positive and negative control

Answer 6

connected to the child’s need for autonomy and self-regulation

Question 7

Goodness of match

Answer 7

Match and mismatch between parent and child.
Advantage:
growth by match-mismatch pair
Disadvantage:
problematic due to differential sensitivity

Question 8

2 central Hypothesis for attachment?

Answer 8

1- Individual differences in the quality of caregiver-infant relationship is a product of caregiver’s history with her caregiver
2-Individual differences come from the attachment style of the relationship.

Question 9

Providing safe heaven

Answer 9

a person whom the infant can return for comfort

Question 10

proximity maintenance

Answer 10

for an infant who seeks closeness and resists separation

Question 11

secure base

Answer 11

a person whose presence serves as security.

Question 12

Temperament traits