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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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12
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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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18
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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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19
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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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20
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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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22
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What is privation?

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When no bond has ever been formed

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23
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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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24
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What is disinhibited attachment?

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Clingy attention seeking behaviour

25
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Affection less psychopathology

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Inability to show affection or concern for others

26
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What’s the continuity hypothesis

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Idea that there is a consistency between early emotional experiences and later relationships

27
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What did Ainsworth strange situation measure

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quality of attachment

28
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In Ainsworth strange situation, what attachment behaviours were observed

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stranger anxiety, separation distress, reunion behaviour and exploration using mother as safe base

29
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what type of observation was Ainsworth strange situation

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overt

30
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what were the results of Ainsworth strange situation

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15% insecure avoidant 70% securely attached 15% insecure resitant

31
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what are secure attachments

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Strong bond with caregiver, distress if separated and when reunited the child is easily comforted

32
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what is insecure avoidant

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isn’t distressed when separated from care giver, can be comforted by stranger and avoid social interaction with others

33
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what is insecure resistant

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Uneasy around caregiver but becomes upset if separated. Comfort can’t be given by strangers and is often resisted by caregiver.

34
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strengths of Ainsworth SS

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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

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lacks ecological validity / demand characteristics as overt / culturally biased

36
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who conducted a cross cultural study of SS

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Van Ljzendoorn et al

37
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what was the cross cultural study of SS

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metanalysis of 32 studies from 8 different countries inc UK, Sweden, Japan

38
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what were the results of the cross cultural study of ss

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65% secure 21% avoidant 14% resistant

western countries more dominant in avoidant compared to non western - resistant

39
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strength of cross cultural study SS

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Comparison is validated by standardised method so high reliability

40
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weaknesses of cross cultural study ss

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Not universal, metaanaylsis can hide indicvidual results with unusual trend and ethnocentrism so judged on American standards

41
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what is Bowlby maternal deprivation hypothesis

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deprivation of motherhoodr during critical period will have harmful affects on Childs emotional, cognitive and social development

42
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what study was conducted to prove the maternal deprivation hypothesis

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44 juvenile theives

43
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procedure of the maternal deprivation study

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44 thieves compared to 44 non thieves in a delinquency centre

44
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findings of maternal deprivation study

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17/44 thieves experienced prolonged separation during critical period
14/44 showed affectioneless psychopathy with 12/14 experienced separation from mothers

45
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conclusion of maternal deprivation study

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deprivation of mother can have very harmful long term consequences

46
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evaluation of maternal deprivation study

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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

47
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what is a privation study

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Case of Genie - Curtiss

48
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describe the privation study

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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

49
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what is a weakness of privation study

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unique study so lack of generalisation & unknown if she had any abnormalities at birth

50
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what was the Romanian orphan study?

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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

51
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what were the findings of the Romanian orphan study

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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

52
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conclusion of Romanian orphan study

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effects of privation can be reversed before 6 months

maternal deprivation itself does cause any problems as the uk adopteeswere fine when seperated

53
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strength of Romanian orphan study

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longitudunal study so better insight into LT effects of privation

54
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weakness of Romanian orphan study

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qualitative data so its harder to create generalisations and theories from it

55
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what did Bowlby internal working model show

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early attachments influence the ability to form relationships in later adulthood

56
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what study supports internal working model

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hazan and shaver

57
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what did the study of internal working model consist of

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love quiz in newpaper

2 parts - assessing attachment with parents and beliefs about romantic love

58
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what did the study of internal working model find

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correlation between the two parts
secure children - happy and trust worthy
insecure avoidant - fearing intimacy
insecure resistant - fearing lack of love

59
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evaluation of internal working model study

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x influence of schema
x volunteer sample so certain type of people may have responded

  • repeated again a 10 years later and similar results

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