Emotional Development

Question 1

Attachment

Answer 1

• relatively enduring emotional tie between two people, each striving to maintain their closeness and acting to ensure their relationship continues over time

Question 2

Bowlby’s Four Stages of Attachment

Answer 2

• describes process of how infants form attachment to 1+ caregivers in first year of life

Question 3

Bowlby’s Four Stages of Attachment: Stage 1 (3)

Answer 3

• Indiscriminate Social Responsiveness
• occurs from birth - 2 months
• infant associates caregiver with distress relief, caregiver responds to distress

Question 4

Bowlby’s Four Stages of Attachment: Stage 2 (3)

Answer 4

• Discriminating Social Ability
• occurs between 2 - 6/7 months
• infant prefers specific familiar caregiver; they begin to care about WHO you are and react positively to familiar caregivers

Question 5

Bowlby’s Four Stages of Attachment: Stage 3 (3)

Answer 5

• Attachment
• occurs between 7 - 24 months
• infant develops attachment

Question 6

Bowlby’s Four Stages of Attachment: Stage 4 (3)

Answer 6

• Reciprocal Relationships
• occurs between 24-30 months and onward
• engage in interactions and initiation of interactions occur because people in relationship are important to each other

Question 7

Security of Attachment

Answer 7

• extent to which infant feels they can count on parent(s) to be there to meet and is crucial to infants

Question 8

Importance of Secure Attachments in Adulthood (3)

Answer 8

• security of attachment predicts internal working model
• your feelings about your worthiness of love determine your relationship quality and your trust that your partner loves you
• if you believe your parents did not love you, it is difficult to believe that a stranger will love you

Question 9

Securely Attached Adults (3)

Answer 9

• prefer closeness with partner and easily comforted by partner, resembling close relationship with parents
• more likely tp form secure attachment with their own children
• about 65% of adult population are securely attached

Question 10

Insecurely Attached Adults (4)

Answer 10

• anxious/avoidant relationships, often fear abandonment, feel unworthy of love, are posessive and jealous, and not trusting of partner
• occurs because they didn’t form secure attachments and have a poor working model of thinking causing them to believe their partner does not love them
• cannot be vulnerable, struggle with being connected in their relationship
• about 35% of adult population are insecurely attached