Attachment Flashcards
What is the definition of attachment?
When the infant has a warm, continuous loving relationship with one person. It is a reciprocal process.
Privation is when…
The infant has not formed any attachment and will lack almost all types of socialisation.
How is daycare a type of seperation and deprivation?
It is when a child is cared for by someone other than parents for some part of the day and it can either be short term or long term so they are seperated and deprived from their parents.
How does evolution relate to child psychology?
Behaviour is due to the need to survive to reproduce genes and is passed through genes. There is an innate tendancy to attach and bond to the main caregiver, inabling survival.
How does seperation anxiety occur?
When seperated from the attachment figure, the child will seek them out for comfort and show distress.
How is seperation anxiety a useful survival mechanism?
It has the effect of drawing the attachment figure back to the infant.
What is deprivation?
When the infant has formed an attachment with the main care giver, but the attachment has been broken (short/long term)
What is child psychology?
Concerned with the behaviour from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. It focuses on how experiences impact later life and development - particularly with cognition, social skills and emotions.
What is a child’s first attachment said to be?
A prototype for all future relationships/attachments
What are characteristics of attachment?
Proximity-seeking behaviour, distress at being seperated and pleasure at being reunited
