Attachment

Question 1

Reciprocity

Answer 1

Interaction is reciprocal when each person responds to the other’s verbal signals and facial expressions and elicits a response from them

Question 2

Interactional reciprocity

Answer 2

Takes place when mum and infant interact in such a way that heir actions and emotions mirrors the other- becomes coordinated

Question 3

Sexual imprinting

Answer 3

When an animal is imprinted on another animal, like human and displays courtship behaviour towards that that animal

Question 4

OC

Answer 4

Learning to repeat behaviour, or not, depending on its consequences

Question 5

Monotropy

Answer 5

Bowlby proposed that infants have one special emotional bond to one caregiver

Question 6

Continuity hypothesis

Answer 6

People tend to base their parenting style to their own experience

Question 7

*Continuity hypothesis

Answer 7

People tend to base their parenting style to their own experience

Question 8

Critical period

Answer 8

Time period,3-6 months, where attachments are to be formed or will have difficulty forming attachments later on

Question 9

*Social releasers

Answer 9

Babies born w/ a set of innate mechanisms where they display cute behaviours like smiling and cooing. Activates the adult attachment system

Question 10

Deprivation

Answer 10

The prolonged separation between a child and it’s mother/mother-substitute. Can cause damage to emotional and intellectual development

Question 11

The critical period

Answer 11

First 2.5 years is critical period, where attachment must be formed. Psychological damage is inevitable