Attachment

Question 1

Interactional synchrony

Answer 1

how a parents speech and behaviour become in tune with the infants to which they become in direct response to one another.

Question 2

Reciprocity

Answer 2

both parent and infant responding to each others actions or behaviours, e.g. smile in infant triggers smile on caregiver or vice versa.

Question 3

The role of the father

Answer 3

the part the father plays in an infants childhood and how this may or may not affect the child if they have a father or not.

Question 4

Secondary attachment

Answer 4

bond between two strangers that eventually deepens to become a primary attachment.

Question 5

Longitudinal study

Answer 5

Research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables over a long period of time.

Question 6

Asocial Stage

Answer 6

Stage from 0-6 weeks where infant may respond to faces or voices but an attachment has not been.

Question 7

Indiscriminate attachment

Answer 7

Infants aged 2-7 months can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar people but does not show stranger anxiety.

Question 8

specific attachment

Answer 8

Infants aged 7 months tend to show a strong attachment to one particular person and are wary of strangers.

Question 9

Multiple attachment.

Answer 9

Multiple attachments are attachments to two or more people. Research has shown that most babies are able to form multiple attachments once they have formed a specific attachment to their main caregiver.

Question 10

separation anxiety

Answer 10

the reaction/behaviour of a child when the primary caregiver is no longer with them.

Question 11

Stranger anxiety.

Answer 11

a form of distress that children experience when exposed to strangers. … Stranger anxiety is a typical part of the developmental sequence that most children experience. It can occur even if the child is with a caregiver or another person they trust.