Chapter 6 Flashcards
What is attatchment theory?
The theory of emotional and social development that focuses on the importance of the infant and the primary caregiver
Why was Attachment Theory not accurate? - John Bowlby
Human infants raised in institutions were not intact in terms of physical and emotional development despite being well-fed.
How did Harlow Refute John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory?
through showing artificial mother’s to a monkey, with one being non-cuddly but provides food, other one that doesn’t but is cuddly.
What was Halow’s point of his experiment?
Show that newborns imprint to their mothers for affection and protection, not food.
Who is the attachment figure?
Where the person whom an individual develops an attachment, who provides safety and comfort in times of distress (Primarily mothers, grandmothers).
What are characteristics of attachment relationships?
- non-Interchangeable
- Someone who seeks to maintain proximity to the attachment figure.
- Unexpected or prologned separate leads to anxiety.
- Individual experiences safety and comfort in the presence of figure.
- Uses the figure as a ‘secure base’ from which to explore.
What determines attachment quality?
1) Sensitivity: Caregiver’s ability to judge of the need of a kid.
2) Responsiveness: How quickly the caregiver can respond or sooth a child when they need it.
What is the internal working model?
Expectations and responsibilities of parent’s availability.
What are the characteristics of Quality of Attachment?
The observation of:
- Child’s behaviour of being separated with caregiver
- Child’s response of being reunited with caregiver
- Child’s response of seeing a stranger, unfamiliar figure.
What is Secure Attachment
When the child uses the caregiver as a secure base, and is upset upon being separated.
The child avoids any strangers unfamiliar to caregiver.
What is Insecure Avoidant?
When there is little interaction between caregiver and child, has little response to parent’s absence, little response to the stranger, nor seek contact with the caregiver.
What is an Insecure Resistance?
When the child:
- Does not show exploratory behahviour by the child when the caregiver is present
- Child gets great distress when caregiver leaves
- Child is fearful of the stranger.
- Child is seeking and resisting comfort at the same time. (Child may approach the giver, but push them away.)
What is a Disorganized - Disoriented?
When the child:
- Shows a pattern of instability, detached, dazed, confused.
- Displays outbursts of anger when caregiver leaves, or shows signs of fear when they return.
- May seek closeness and then pull away.
What are the consequences of attachment?
The theory of what attachment correlates to what baheviour in the future.
