Attachment Keywords

Question 1

Deprivation

Answer 1

Loss of an attachment or bond between child and caregiver

Question 2

Privation

Answer 2

Where no bond or attachment has been formed at all between child and caregiver

Question 3

Social relationship

Answer 3

The interactions with caregiver and peers from an birth onwards

Question 4

Monotrophic

Answer 4

A close and important bond formed with a single primary caregiver.
Eg. Child and mother

Question 5

Asocial (0 to 6 weeks)

Answer 5

Crying and smiling but not aimed towards an individual

Question 6

Indiscriminate attachment (6weeks to 7months)

Answer 6

Crying not directed to anyone, easily comforted by any individual

Question 7

Specific attachment (7 to 11months)

Answer 7

Behaviour is more organised and directed towards certain people

Question 8

Imprinting (Lorenz)

Answer 8

Happens normally between parent and infant.

Question 9

Securely attached

Answer 9

Easily absorbed with new activity
Prefers mother
Easily pacified but happy to see caregiver return

Question 10

Detached/avoidant

Answer 10

Does not initiate or resist contact with caregiver

Shows no preference in a person

Question 11

Resistant/ambivalent

Answer 11

Does not explore surrounding
Wary of strangers
Resists contact with others

Question 12

Disorganised

Answer 12

Confusion

Dazed behaviour