Attachment through the life Course

Question 1

attachment behavioral system

Answer 1

a motivational system selected over the course of evolution to maintain proximity between a young child and his/her primary attachment figure

Question 2

attachment behaviors

Answer 2

behaviors and signals that attract the attention of a primary attachment figure and function to prevent separation from that individual or to reestablish proximity to that individual

Question 3

attachment figure

Answer 3

someone who functions as the primary safe haven and secure base for an individual. in childhood, usually a parent, in adulthood usually a romantic partner.

Question 4

attachment patterns
aka, styles or
orientations

Answer 4

individual differences in how securely or insecurely people think, feel and behave in attachment relationships

Question 5

strange situation

Answer 5

a laboratory task that involves briefly separating and reuniting infants and their primary caregivers as a way of studying the differences in their behavior

Question 6

attachment theory

Bowlby British psychoanalyst

Answer 6

understanding the nature of close relationships

Question 7

Harlows experiment

Answer 7

baby monkeys were separated and
there were two artificial monkeys made
-wire monkey
-foam monkey

Question 8

Ainsworth theory

Answer 8

She provided the first empirical demonstrations on how attachment behavior is organized in unfamiliar contexts

Question 9

Hazen and Shaver

Answer 9

First researchers to explore Bowlby’s theory in romantic relationships
-individuals gradually transfer attachment-related functions from parent to peers as they develop