Influences of Experience on Relationship Development

Question 1

Attachment:

Answer 1

any form of behavior that
results in a person attaining or
retaining proximity to some
other differentiated and
preferred individual, usually
conceived as stronger and/or
wiser

Question 2

Attachment
Theory

Answer 2

• John Bowlby
• Mary Ainsworth (“The strange situation”

Question 3

strange situation

Answer 3

the mother leaves the room and maybe there is a stranger comes back or not

what is inportant is how they react when the mom comes back

Question 4

Attachment
Behaviour

Answer 4

• Is adaptive
• Keeps a balance between
  exploration and proximity
  seeking
• Idea of a “safe zone”(keep checking back)
• Attachment figure is the secure base from which to explore

Question 5

“A Theory of Affect
Regulation” - Responses to the experiment

Answer 5

secure - acknowledge distress, turn to others for comfort/support

avoidant - don’t acknowledge distress and do not seek support

anxious-ambivalent - hypersensitivity and heightened distress

(possible 4th group) disorganized - disoriented, contradictory reunion behaviour

Question 6

attachment and parenting style is not causality but related

Question 7

attachment and parenting : secure attachment style

Answer 7

parenting style: Available, warm, responsive

Question 8

attachment and parenting : Avoidant attachment style

Answer 8

parenting style: rejecting, rigid, hostile

Question 9

attachment and parenting : Anxious-ambivalent attachment style

Answer 9

parenting style: insensitive, inconsistent

Question 10

Why is this important?

Answer 10

Attachment plays a role in our close relationships throughout the life cycle

through adulthood

Question 11

Initial Measure of Adult Attachment

Answer 11

• Shaver and Hazan
• the way they asked the questions - had to much in a text and some negative wording

Question 12

Adult Attachment: Two Dimensions

not clumps this is a problem because some people dont fall in these category

Answer 12

secure:low intimacy avoidance, low anxiety over abadomment

Preoccupied (anxious ambivient) : Low intimacy avoidance,High anxiety over abandoment

Fearful(avoidant) : High intamacy Avoidence, High intimacy avoidance

**Dismissing **(avoidence) : Low Anxiety over Abandamonment, High Intamacy avoidance

Question 13

Individual Differences in
Attachment

Answer 13

Bi-directional Influence
* Influence caregiver and child have on each other

Genetic constitution
* Infant temperament

Cultural influence
* Frequency of insecure attachment varies based on differences in child rearing practices
* Western Europe more Avoidant
* Israel and Japan more Preoccupied