Attachment bowlby Flashcards

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What is the acronym to help remember Bowlby’s concepts about attachment?

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ASCMI

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What is the ‘A’ in ASCMI?

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Adaptive

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What is the ‘S’ in ASCMI?

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Social Releaser

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What is the ‘C’ in ASCMI?

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Critical period

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What is the ‘M’ in ASCMI?

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Monotropy

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What is the ‘I’ in ASCMI?

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Internal Working model

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A social releaser is?

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Things like crying which make a parent stay close and care for the baby

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What does Adaptive mean?

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Something which is beneficial to our survival e.g. having parents who love us when we are babies

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Monotropy is?

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a single bond considered more important than any other

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The critical/sensitive period is?

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where attachment needs to occur for a healthy, normal human to emerge

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How long is the critical/sensitive period?

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Around 2.5 years

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A secure base is?

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using your parent as a base from which to explore and interact with the world

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An internal working model is?

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where your early relationship becomes a schema for future relationships, how they treat you is stored in our memory

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What is the continuity hypothesis?

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The idea that our future relationships when we are older are similar to those we had with our parents when young

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Which part of ASCMI does Robertson and Robertson specifically disagree with?

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Monotropic bond/Critical period- They showed as long as their was good care it didn’t need to be with the monotropic figure

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16
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How many of Bowlby’s 44 thieves were considered affectionless Psychopaths?

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14

17
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What did Lorenz show?

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Critical periods and attachment in general are adaptive and evolved

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Hazan and Shaver show?

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IWM is supported- childhood attachment does match adult attachment types

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Spitz Shows?

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The critical period is supported, children raised in an institution showed depressiona and behavioural issues

20
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Evolutionary theories like this are a problem because?

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Retrospective and post-hoc, you cannot measure our ancestors and so cannot make concrete judgements about it’s validity

21
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Rutter criticised Bowlby for

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Over focus on the mother and focusing on the separation rather than the cause of separation

22
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Schaffer and Emerson found what % of children had multiple bonds (disproving monotropic bonds)

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27%

23
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Why is Bowlby seen as socially controlling and socially sensitive (or lacking temporal validity at least)?

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Reinforcing gender roles of women staying at home for childcare

24
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What is a problem of the concept of the IWM/Schemas?

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The IWM is not empirical because you cannot directly test them

25
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What is attachment?

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The loving bond between two people where they are not interchangable with others