Emotional development

Question 1

What’s the difference between Attachment and Bonding

Answer 1

Attachment: Complex (eg: close proximity, comfort in times of distress, main care giver)
Bonding: Basic needs

Question 2

What is Bowlby’s theory

Answer 2

He linked the importance of social and cognitive development to the child’s relationship with their mother.

Question 3

Triggers for poor attachment

Answer 3

-Premature
-post-natal depression
-Foster care
-Disability

Question 4

Mary Ainsworth

Answer 4

Expanded Bowlby’s theory, states that a child’s experiences can lead to 3 types of attachment:
1) Secure: resulted in good emotional development
2) avoidant: resulted in building walls around themselves
3) ambivalent: resulted in not feeling secure, worried, seeking reassurance

Question 5

Mary Ainsworth evidence

Answer 5

Strange situation: Investigated attachment security in children, involved 8 episodes of the mother, child and stranger meeting, separated, reunited

Question 6

Bowlby’s evidence:

Answer 6

eg: If a child cries over a toy he doesn’t like, if the mother removed this toy and comforts him, he will stop crying

Question 7

Criticisms of bowlby théorie

Answer 7

Michel Rutter argued, material deprivation didn’t always end with long term side effects