Attachment studies Flashcards
Who studied...?
Who’s study investigated interactional synchrony in infants?
Meltzoff and Moore
Who investigated reciprocal social interactions between mothers and their young infants?
Brazelton
Who investigated stages of attachment?
Schaffer and Emerson
Who challenges Schaffer and Emerson’s stage of attachment?
Van Ijzendoorn
Who found that the quality of the father’s attachment was less important for teenagers’ attachment type than the quality of attachment with the mother?
Grossman
Who found that father’s play interactions tend to be more boisterous and rough-and-tumble?
Geiger
Who found that when fathers are the primary caregivers, they engage in more sensitive interactions?
Field
Who found that children prefer to interact with fathers when they are in a positive emotional state, but seek comfort from their mothers when they are distressed?
Lamb
Who found that father involvement and paternal sensitivity influenced father-child attachment security?
Brown
Who investigated whether imprinting is innate and biologically programmed in animals?
Lorenz
Who investigated the importance of contact comfort in the development of attachment behaviours?
Harlow
Who challenges The Learning Theory?
Bowlby
Who developed the monotropic theory?
Bowlby
Who investigated key attachment behaviours and assess the quality of a child’s attachment to their caregiver?
Ainsworth
Who argued that temperament, such as anxiety levels, could influence how infants behave in the Strange Situation?
Kagan
Who identified a fourth attachment type, Type D, characterized by inconsistent, confused, or disoriented behaviour?
Main and Cassidy
Who investigated attachment types across cultures and determine whether attachment styles are universal?
Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg
Who found that Japanese infants showed greater instances of insecure-resistant attachment compared to Western cultures, and the Strange Situation caused extreme distress due to Japanese infants rarely being left alone?
Takahashi
