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What are the 5 caregiver - infant reactions

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Bodily contact 
Mimicking
Interactions synchrony
caregiverse
Reciprocity
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What is caregiverse

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Modified vocal language e.g. High pitches and slow

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What is intersectional synchrony

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Infants move bodies in tune with rhyme of caters spoken language

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What is reciprocity

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Interaction of similar behaviour patterns between cater and infant

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Stages of attachment of development (4)

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Pre attachment phase
Indiscriminate phase
Discriminate phase
Multiple attachment stage

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What is the pre attachment stage

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Infant attracted to humans

Preference over objects/events

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What is the indiscriminate phase

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Distinguish familiar unfamiliar faces

Still allow strangers to handle

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What is the discriminate phase

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Infants develop specific attachments

Distress when seperated

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What is the multiple attachment phase

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Strong emotional ties with other major care givers

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What are the 4 factors affecting the relationship between father and child

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Degree of sensitivity
Type of attachment with own parents
Martial intimacy
Supportive co-parenting

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What is the cupboard love theory

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Belief that attachments are formed with people who feed the infant

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What is the classical conditions explanations of attachment

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Stimulus is food

Associates care giver with pleasure

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What is operant conditioning

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Law of effect
Attachments occur by caregivers associated with reducing unpleasant feeling of hunger

Care giver is the reward

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What are bowlbys social releases

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Crying
Looking and smiling and vocalising
Following and clinging

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What is the critical period

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Specific time period where an attachment must form

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What is the monotropic theory

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Infants have an inbuilt tendency to make initial attachment with 1 attachment figure

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What is monotropy?

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Innate tendency to become attached to one particular adult

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What are ainsworth 3 attachment types?

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Type a insecure avoidant
Type b securely attached
Type c insecure resistant

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What’s stranger anxiety

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degree of distress shown by infants when with unfamiliar individual

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What does bowlbys maternal deprivation hypothesis explore?

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What happens when attachments are broken

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What’s short term seperation and the PDD model?

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E.g. Day care babysitter

Protest immediate reaction
Despair protest replaced by calmer behaviour
Detachment child responds to people but warily

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What is privation?

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When no bond has ever been formed

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What is institutionalisation

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Effects upon attachments of care

Provided by orphanages/child homes

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What is disinhibited attachment?

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Clingy attention seeking behaviour

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Affection less psychopathology
Inability to show affection or concern for others
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What's the continuity hypothesis
Idea that there is a consistency between early emotional experiences and later relationships
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What did Ainsworth strange situation measure
quality of attachment
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In Ainsworth strange situation, what attachment behaviours were observed
stranger anxiety, separation distress, reunion behaviour and exploration using mother as safe base
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what type of observation was Ainsworth strange situation
overt
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what were the results of Ainsworth strange situation
15% insecure avoidant 70% securely attached 15% insecure resitant
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what are secure attachments
Strong bond with caregiver, distress if separated and when reunited the child is easily comforted
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what is insecure avoidant
isn't distressed when separated from care giver, can be comforted by stranger and avoid social interaction with others
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what is insecure resistant
Uneasy around caregiver but becomes upset if separated. Comfort can't be given by strangers and is often resisted by caregiver.
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strengths of Ainsworth SS
its replicable so has high interobserver reliability and there is reliability of classifications as validated by Waters et al who used the ss procedure succesfully
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weaknesses of Ainsworth SS
lacks ecological validity / demand characteristics as overt / culturally biased
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who conducted a cross cultural study of SS
Van Ljzendoorn et al
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what was the cross cultural study of SS
metanalysis of 32 studies from 8 different countries inc UK, Sweden, Japan
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what were the results of the cross cultural study of ss
65% secure 21% avoidant 14% resistant | western countries more dominant in avoidant compared to non western - resistant
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strength of cross cultural study SS
Comparison is validated by standardised method so high reliability
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weaknesses of cross cultural study ss
Not universal, metaanaylsis can hide indicvidual results with unusual trend and ethnocentrism so judged on American standards
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what is Bowlby maternal deprivation hypothesis
deprivation of motherhoodr during critical period will have harmful affects on Childs emotional, cognitive and social development
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what study was conducted to prove the maternal deprivation hypothesis
44 juvenile theives
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procedure of the maternal deprivation study
44 thieves compared to 44 non thieves in a delinquency centre
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findings of maternal deprivation study
17/44 thieves experienced prolonged separation during critical period 14/44 showed affectioneless psychopathy with 12/14 experienced separation from mothers
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conclusion of maternal deprivation study
deprivation of mother can have very harmful long term consequences
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evaluation of maternal deprivation study
Link is found between deprivation and criminal behaviour but it can't be said if one causes the other investigator effects can be practically applied to real world
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what is a privation study
Case of Genie - Curtiss
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describe the privation study
Genie suffered extreme cruelty from her parents and never formed any attachments. When discovered at 13 yr old she was pshycially underdeveloped and could only make animal like noises
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what is a weakness of privation study
unique study so lack of generalisation & unknown if she had any abnormalities at birth
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what was the Romanian orphan study?
Rutter et al studied 111 romanian orphans who were adopted by British families and compared with 52 British adoptees he assessed over a prolonged period of time
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what were the findings of the Romanian orphan study
children younger than 6 months when adopted had the same level of emotional development as the UK adoptees but over 6 months the children had insecure attachments and social problems compared to the uk adoptees who didn't show any problems
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conclusion of Romanian orphan study
effects of privation can be reversed before 6 months | maternal deprivation itself does cause any problems as the uk adopteeswere fine when seperated
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strength of Romanian orphan study
longitudunal study so better insight into LT effects of privation
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weakness of Romanian orphan study
qualitative data so its harder to create generalisations and theories from it
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what did Bowlby internal working model show
early attachments influence the ability to form relationships in later adulthood
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what study supports internal working model
hazan and shaver
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what did the study of internal working model consist of
love quiz in newpaper | 2 parts - assessing attachment with parents and beliefs about romantic love
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what did the study of internal working model find
correlation between the two parts secure children - happy and trust worthy insecure avoidant - fearing intimacy insecure resistant - fearing lack of love
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evaluation of internal working model study
x influence of schema x volunteer sample so certain type of people may have responded * repeated again a 10 years later and similar results

Psychology Paper 1 (4 decks)

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