The Secure Base

Question 1

Secure Base

Answer 1

The caregivers role as a place of safety for the child

Question 2

Attachment Theory

Answer 2

A theory specifying that a child’s attachment experiences will eventually become a part of the child’s personality

Question 3

Internalized

Answer 3

Become a stable part of a a personality

Question 4

Attachment Style

Answer 4

The general way an individual attaches or related to others (applies to the baby monkeys)

Question 5

Secure Attatchment

Answer 5

A trusting, open style of attachment

Question 6

Anxious-Attachment

Answer 6

An anxious, uncertain, and clingy style of attachment; in some models, includes a negative view of self

Question 7

When do problems arise in attachment?

Answer 7

When a child develops an attachment style in one environment and then uses the same style in a different environment

Question 8

Avoidant-Attachment

Answer 8

A removed, isolated style of attachment; in some models includes a negative view of others

Dismissing and fearful or two subtypes of the original avoidant style both uncertain of relationships, but for different reasons. Fearful people are afraid of getting hurt and dismissing people just don’t care about relationships that much

Question 9

Strange Situation

Answer 9

A paradigm used to test attachment in young children that involves separation from a parent

Question 10

What do secure babies do when mother re-enters room?

Answer 10

Smile and look happy to see their mother

Question 11

What do anxious babies do when mother re-enters room?

Answer 11

Keep crying after their mothers return and are difficult to comfort

Question 12

What do avoidant babies do when mother re-enters room?

Answer 12

They will look away from their mothers and refuse to acknowledge them

Question 13

Can attachment styles change?

Answer 13

Yes, over time

Question 14

Anxiety

Answer 14

Attachment dimension suggesting a negative view of oneself

Nervousness about relationships along with a negative view of oneself

Question 15

Avoidance

Answer 15

Attachment dimension suggesting a negative view of others

A desire not to be connected emotionally to relationship partners and a negative view of others

Question 16

Preoccupied Attachment

Answer 16

Attachment style with high anxiety but lower avoidance, a style of attachment with a positive view of others but a negative view of the self

Preoccupied is the same as anxious attachment

Question 17

Dismissing attachment

Answer 17

An attachment style with lower anxiety but higher avoidance, a style of attachment with a positive view of the self and a negative view of others

Dismissing and fearful or two subtypes of the original avoidant style. Both are uncertain of relationships, but for different reasons. Fearful people are afraid of getting hurt, and dismissing people just don’t care about relationships that much.

Question 18

Fearful attachment

Answer 18

An attachment style with high anxiety and high avoidance, I style of attachment with a negative view of both of self and others