Emotional Development

Question 0

Attachment theory

Answer 0

Human infants need a secure relationship with an adult caregiver for healthy emotional and social development to occur.

Question 1

Attachment

Answer 1

The tendency of infants to form an emotional bond to their main caregiver.

Question 2

British psychiatrist John Bowlby (1907-90)

Answer 2

Describes four key characteristics that are to be present for a strong emotional bond to be formed: proximity maintenance, safe haven, secure base and separation distress.
- proposed that infants form attachments with those mostly involved with them

Question 3

American psychologist Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999)

Answer 3

Infants can form different types of attachment: secure attachment, avoidant attachment and resistant attachment.

Question 4

American Psychologist Harry Harlow (1905-81)

Answer 4

Undertook research of attachment in rhesus monkeys, to investigate the factors influencing the development of attachment.