attachment not in exam

Question 1

What is a caregiver?

Answer 1

any person who is providing care for a child, such as parent, grandparent, sibling

Question 2

What is interactional synchrony?

Answer 2

it is when two people interact they mirror what the other is doing in terms of their facial and body movements

Question 3

What is reciprocity?

Answer 3

responding to an action of another with a similar action

Question 4

what are the 3 stages of attachment?

Answer 4

indiscriminate attachment
beginnings of attachment
discriminante attachment

Question 5

What is separation anxiety?

Answer 5

the distress shown by an infant when separated from his/her caregiver

Question 6

What is stranger anxiety?

Answer 6

the distress shown by an infant when approached or picked up by someone who is unfamiliar

Question 7

What is multiple attachment?

Answer 7

having more than one attachment figure

Question 8

Describe indiscriminate attachment

Answer 8

it’s the first stage of attachment. Happens from birth until about two months. Infants produce similar responses to all objects, whether they are animate or inanimate. Towards the end of this stage infants are beginning to show a greater preference for social stimuli, e.g smiling face. During this time reciprocity and interactional synchrony play a role in establishing the infants relationships with others.

Question 9

Describe the beginnings of attachment.

Answer 9

1. It’s the 2nd stage of attachment.
2. happens at around the age of four months infants become more social.
3. They prefer human company to inanimate objects and can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar people. However they’re still relatively easily comforted by anyone, and don’t yet show stranger anxiety.
4. The most distinctive feature of this phase is their enjoyment of being with people.

Question 10

Describe discriminate attachment

Answer 10

Happens when the infant is about 7 months old. The infant shows separation anxiety. They also show especial joy at reunion with that person and are most comforted by this person. They are said to have formed a specific attachment to one person, their primary attachment figure. At around the same time infants start to exhibit stranger anxiety.

Schaffer and emerson found that the primary attachment was not always formed with the person who spent most time with the child. They observed that intensely attached infants who were poorly attached had mothers who failed to interact. Thus they concluded that it is quality of the relationship not quantity, that matters most in the formation of attachment.

In 65% of the children the first specific attachment was to the mother, and in a further 30% the mother was the first joint object of attachment. Fathers were rarely the first sole object of attachment (3%) but 27% of them were the joint first object.

Question 11

Describe the multiple attachments?

Answer 11

very soon after the main attachment, is formed, the infant also develops a wider circle of multiple attachments depending on how many consistent relationships he/she has