Exam 1 - Attachment Flashcards
How is love experienced by an infant?
Attachment
An attachment to an adult is a strategy for what?
strategy to keep the caregiver close
Love is the ____ and attachment is the ____.
need, strategy
What do our relationships look like at age birth – 3 months?
unoccupied play (not really playing, more exploring
What do our relationships look like at age 3 months - 2 years?
solitary play (actual playing)
What do our relationships look like at age 2?
observe other children play
What do our relationships look like at age 2+ years?
play alongside children, but not with them
What do our relationships look like at age 3-4 years?
- want to play around children
- might have preferred friend
- not a large amount of interaction
What do our relationships look like at age 4+ years?
- cooperative play
- start to understand that people have other feelings / experiences than us
- we can form FRIENDSHIPS
What is the difference between emotional & cognitive empathy?
- emotional empathy: physically feeling along with the other person
- cognitive empathy: knowing what the other person feels / able to comfort them
–> children don’t have cognitive empathy yet
What is the Theory of Mind? What age does is start?
- age 4-5
- understanding thoughts are individual and private
- start of friendships
- “peak” experience of friendship
What happens in the brain during early adolescence in regards of love & friendship?
- Neurotransmitters & Hormones ACTIVE
high cortisol (stress)
high dopamine (reward)
high oxytocin (attachment)
high vasopressin (sexual attraction)
low serotonin (obsessive thinking) - some brainareas DEACTIVATED
brain areas involved in critical social judgment & assessment of trustworthiness
What is love in adolescents important for?
Identity formation
- what you like / who you like
- social & emotional regulation skills
- higher rejection sensitivity
Define Intimacy, Passion and Commitment in the context of Sternberg’s Model of Love
Intimacy: emotional intimacy, connection trusting each other
Passion: sexual part, physical attraction
Commtiment: chosen someone & don’t plan on leaving them
Consumate love:
intimacy+passion+commitment
Fatuous love
passion + commitment
Romantic Love
Intimacy + passion
Companiate Love
Commitment + Intimacy
Empty love
Commitment
Infatutation
Passion
Liking
Intimacy
Role of Ventral Tegmental Area after adolescence?
new love, reward area
Role of ventral Pallidium after adolescence?
people madly in love after 20 years; associated with attachment
NAc
those madly in love, but recently dumped
