Attachment Flashcards
1
Q
Separation protest
A
When an individual shows distress upon detachment from an attachment figure
2
Q
Stranger anxiety
A
Showing distress in the presence of an unfamiliar person
3
Q
Secure attachment
A
Relationship built on trust and security, interacts with caregiver
4
Q
Insecure avoidant
A
Child is quite independent of caregiver
5
Q
Insecure ambivalent
A
Clingy and demanding, yet awkward with caregiver
6
Q
(A core theory)
Bowlby
(4)
A
- Monotropy: attachment to one primary caregiver
- Critical period: must make attachment in first three years or else serious consequences
- Privation: when a child forms no attachment to a caregiver
- Deprivation: when a child has formed an attachment but is broken through separation
7
Q
Bowlby evaluation
A
- Monotropy is inaccurate as children can develop attachments to multiple caregivers
- Critical period is too rigid, may be the best time but not the only
- Examples of the effects of deprivation being reversed
8
Q
(A alternative theory)
Behaviourist theory
A
- Attachment is instinctive but relies on learning and experience
- Learning through reinforcement such as smiling strengthens the bond
9
Q
(A core study)
Hazen and Shaver (1987)
A
- A questionnaire filled out to an opportunity sample of people aged between 14-82
- Multichoice questions
- Secure infants in good relationships
- Avoidant afraid of intimacy
- Ambivalent most likely to divorce
- Secure infants in good relationships
10
Q
Hazen and Shaver (1987) evaluation
A
- Unrepresentative sample as only a certain type of person would have completed it
- people may have lied or exaggerated their answers or perspective on childhood is subjective
- closed questions may have lead to inaccurate answers, through lack of clarification or lack of choice
11
Q
(A AoR)
Care of Children
A
Separation anxiety has lead to extended visiting hours
Skin to skin contact helps begin the Monotropy bond
