Attachment stuff

Question 1

Sroufe’s theory of emotional development

Answer 1

• emotion is complex and dynamic process, cannot be defined by simple, single states
• emotion as intrapersonal event determined by a person’s evaluation of the situation
• there is order to development (ontogenetic)

Question 2

Explain the monkey love experiments? Who was the researcher?

Answer 2

• evaluated whether feeding or contact was more improtant to attachment
• need for affection made stronger bond than physical needs (food)
• Marlow

Question 3

What are 3 main features of IWM in secure children?

Answer 3

1. others as being trustworthy
2. self as valuable
3. self as effective when interacting with others

Question 4

What is an internal working model of attachment?

Answer 4

cognitive framework compromising of mental represetations fro understanding the world, self, and others

Question 5

What are the 6 criteria for affectional bonds?

Who is connected to this theory?

Answer 5

1. persistant across time
2. involves a specific person
3. emotionally significant
4. indy wishes to maintain proximity/close contact with the person
5. distress at involuntary seperation from the person
6. in times of distress, indy seeks security and comfort in relationship with the person

Ainsworth

Question 6

bowlby’s dynamic equilibrium

Answer 6

parent and child may not always agree on distance between them

Question 7

What are the 2 important propositions of the nature of attachment bonds?

who said them?

Answer 7

1. reflects only one feature of relationship with the mother: the component that deals with behavior related to child’s protection and security in times of stress
2. cannot be presumed to exist even though a relationship may contain attachment component

Bowlby

Question 8

what would a secure child’s working model of itself be?

Answer 8

positive and loved

Question 9

What would an avoidant child’s working model of itself be?

Answer 9

unloved and rejected

Question 10

What would a resistant child’s working model of itself be?

Answer 10

angry and confused

Question 11

What are the three basic emotion systems in Sroufe’s theory?
At what age should they emerge?

Answer 11

Fear, joy, and anger
Should all emerge around the second half of the first year of life

Question 12

What are the 4 principles to examine emotional development?

Sroufe’s theory of emotional dev

Answer 12

1. there is order in dev (ontogenetic principle)
2. emotion tied to dev in other domains
3. all major domains of emotional dev are part of same whole
4. adequecy of dev account depends on unification