Exam 2 Flashcards
Ainsworth believes one should accept strange situation behavior as characteristic of a child with ___; not implying that there may not be factors that affect child’s characteristics (ex?)
Confidence/ Ex:high fever
3 effects of secure attachment to the mother w/ which Ainsworth concludes her review of Group B babies are:
More readily socialized: more cooperative and willing to comply with mother’s commands and requests/ More + outgoing to and cooperative with relatively unfamiliar adult figures/ Explore more effectively
In comparison to group A & B moms, group C mothers are..
Less responsive to crying and to signals and communication in general than group B moms/Less rejecting than group A moms
When picked up, group C babies protest angrily if mother’s(3)
Pick up is badly timed/ not picked up when they want to be/ put down when they still want to be held
Group C babies may be slower to develop cognitively than the other 2 groups bc…
they are “handicapped” by their anxiety in leaving the mother to explore and learn through exploration
Both mother avoidance in the SS and detachment during and after longer separations served a…
defensive function
Group A mother show rejection toward their babies by (3)
Rebuffing infant desire for close bodily contact/ More frequently angry and irritated w. babies/More rigid and compulsive
Typical gaze aversion is…
when the infant looks away from his mother after looking at her
What does Group A gaze aversion look like?
The baby avoids mom when the stranger enters or approaches them (baby should be seeking proximity at this time)
How is gaze aversion explained in reference to bird behavior?
Gull does not flee during courtship, instead averts female’s gaze. Thus leaving the possibility open for further more constructive interaction when arousal decreases by cut off behavior
How does avoidant behavior reflect a kind of coping?
Dampens direct expression of anger to the attachment figure and also protects baby from re experiencing the rebuff they’ve come to expect when seeking proximity/ Increases neutrality, decreases anxiety
Why do observers need to be trained in order to code avoidant behavior in the strange
situation?
Not easily recognized to the untutored eye
Those who worked at the Child Guidance Clinics believed that the causes of deviant behavior arose where?
Social environment (not genes)
What are the 3 components of the SSP that are responsible for eliciting attachment behavior?
Strange environment, stranger, and the separations from the caregiver
What did Wiehe observe in “The behavior of the child in strange fields”?
Strongest pressure resulting in the child becoming motionless and a weaker degree of pressure causing the child to cry or to run away or towards his mother/ decrease pressure, increased natural behavior
How did Arsenian employ the strange situation as a means to studying child behavior? (3)
SS effect on children’s feeling of security/ First to vary absence or presence of the mom in a SS/ Separated the effects of the SS from the effects of separation from mom
What was “horrifying” about the Rosenthal study?
High anxiety condition room features
What did the Schwartz study reveal about the differences in child behaviors in the presence of a
stranger versus the mother?
Fear in the presence of the mother to the random toy gorilla/ calmer in front of stranger (inhibited emotional communication?)
What do the strange situation studies of the 60’s have in common that distinguished them from Ainsworth’s SSP? (2)
They attributed behavior of the child directly to the situation and no the mother-child interactions/ studies were normative and looked at the general behavior of children as a group (no attachm. style)
In their conclusions the authors state several reasons why they believe Ainsworth’s SSP
differed from other strange situation work. What are these reasons? (5)
SS based on blend of Blatz security theory and Bowlby’s attachment security/ Offered explanations for the observed behavior from an evolutionary and ethological POV/ One of the few to focus on parent-child relat. instead of traits or behaviors of the child/ Developmental differences examined/ SS allowed researchers to infer or classify the child’s attachment relat. w. the mother from the behavior of child in the lab
Mary Salter –> Ainsworth born and raised where?
Born 1913 Ohio/ Grew up in Toronto
Mentor and mentor’s interest?
William Blatz’s secure theory: Secure dependence leads to independent security
Ainsworth 1942
Canadian Women’s corp: clinical interviews, test admininstrations
Ainsworth 1946
Joined University of Toronto’s faculty
Ainsworth 1950
Married Leonard Ainsworth and followed him to London
Ainsworth hired as a researcher on a project by ____ at ___ while in London
Bowlby/ Travistock Clinic
Ainsworth at Travistock 1950-1953
Analyzed James Roberton’s data (film that raised awareness and acceptance of Bowlby’s ideas)
Ainsworth in Uganda
Followed husband there/ Researched mother-infant separation
Ainsworth Uganda research (Sample,observation, supported)
26 mother-infant pairs/ Found: Bowlby’s evolutionary perspective was a better explanation than psychoanalytic or behavioral perspective of ‘cupboard love’ (feeding–> baby’s love)/ First to support Bowlby’s ethological ideas
Answorth argued that attachment ___ interfere with the development of self-reliance; rather ___
doesn’t/supports
Ainsworth in 1955
Baltimore: Joined faculty @ John Hopkins
Ainsworth in 1958
Baltimore: Bowlby visits and collaboration begins again/ began cataloging behaviors that indicate attachment
The Baltimore study 1963(4)
Monthly visits w families across 1st yr of infant’s life/ Initial findings indicated early responsive care giving –> harmonious relationship/ immediate response to infant crying led to decreased crying / Last visit: SS
Across the home observations Ainsworth noted:
Individual differences in attachment behaviors seen in how attachment system & exploration balanced
Ainsworth: Balance is affected by perception of ____ ___
Caregiver availability (IWM)
Ainsworth identified 4 scales of caregiver behavior
sensitivity to signals/ cooperation vs interference/ acceptance vs rejection/ availability vs unavailability
Which two episodes of the SS are most important and why?
5 & 8: Reunion behaviors
Classification of attachment security based on (2)
Interactive behaviors and 1-7 ratings on 4 scales
1-7 ratings on 4 scales classification of attachment security based on which 4 scales?
Proximity seeking/ contact maintaining/ avoidance to proximity and contact/ resistance to contact and comforting
What does a 7 on Ainsworth proximity seeking mean? (4)
Very active effort & initiative in achieving physical contact/ approach is achieved thru infant’s own efforts/ adult cooperation not required/ contact more than momentary: infant doesn’t turn to other things within 15 seconds
What does scoring a 1 on proximity seeking mean? (3)
No effort to achieve physical contact or proximity/ occupied with play or exploration or desperate crying/ pays little attn. to adult or merely looks or smiles across distance w.o. any signal contact, accepts contact w.o. any indication they wished for it, or approaches in course of exploration, accidentally makes contact
What should an assessment of attachment security do? (4)
should be positively related to the caregiver’s accessibility and responsiveness/(in a particular caregiver-child relationship)should tend to remain stable over time/should predict other aspects of development / be assessed by using similar cross-culturally and across-attachment figures