Week 4 - introduction to developmental psychology

Question 1

What are Piaget’s cognitive stages?

Answer 1

• Proposed distinct cognitive stages
• Based on observations of own children
• Challenged behaviourist ideas at the time
• Altered the though climate like Freud’s ideas did

Question 2

What is ATTACHMENT?

Answer 2

An enduring, intense tie to a particular individual which, if disrupted, has negative concequences.

• about physical and felt security
• Principally parents
• can be attached to friends, partners, siblings

a characteristic of mammals

Question 3

What are the 4 attachments?

Answer 3

1. Secure
2. Ambivalent
3. Avoidant
4. Disorganissed

Question 4

What is secure attachment

Answer 4

• uses caregiver as a secure base for exploration
• shows appropriate distress when caregiver leaves
• comforted on return
• May be comforted by strangers but shows clear preference of caregiver

Question 5

what is ambivalent attachment

Answer 5

• does not use caregiver as secure base for exploration
• protests before caregiver leaves
• slow to warm on return of the caregiver
• Expresses concern about cargiver ocation
• Seeks contact bu resists angrily when it is achieved
• Not easily calmed by stranger
• The child always feels anxious because caregiver’s availability is never consistent

Question 6

What is avoidant attachment

Answer 6

• little emotional sharing in play
• few signs of emotions when caregiver leaves or returns
• Shows low affect when offered affecting
• Treats strangers similarly to caregivers
• Child may express lack of attachment and low self esteem by acting out

Question 7

What is DISORGANISED ATTACHMENT

Answer 7

• Lack of attachment expressed by disorganised emotional behaviour
• e.g. approaching the caregiver but with the back turned