Adult Attatchment L5

Question 1

internal working models contain schema, about our entire history of…

Answer 1

given care.

Question 2

self esteem is…

Answer 2

a global view of ones self.
Secure positively linked.
Anxious negatively linked.
Avoidant not linked.

Question 3

pietromonaco gave students a diary and told them to write down self worth after any interaction they had longer than 10 minuets, they found that….

Answer 3

Found high anxiety had poor view of self, even after neutral encounters. Avoidant fell between secure and anxious.

Question 4

Avoidant type adults tend to engage in…

Answer 4

Defensive self enhancement

Question 5

Describe Mikaulincers research methodology and findings.

Answer 5

Fake cognitive task given, which gave ppts either Negative or Neutral feedback. were then hooked up to an electrode which they were told either measured muscle tone (control), or detected lies. Then gave a surprise 60 word adjective task with positive and negative words. told to say how much the adjective described them.

Found Axious ppts highly rated Negative words after Failure.

Found Avoidant ppts Highly rated Positive words after Failure (defensive self enhancement) when told it was muscle tone, but highly rated Negative words when told it was a lie detector.

Question 6

How are views of self maintained? include evidence.

Answer 6

Hopeless cognitive style - reinforce self blame passivity and defeatism. associated with depression and anxiety.

Patterns of feedback seeking - like to validate our beliefs, so anxious look for info that confirms low self worth, avoidant look for info that others are bad, secure is balanced.

Brennon & Morris - partners got to select questions given to there partner, which would elicit positive or negative info about self. found Anxious and Avoidant seek negative information, confirming there own beliefs.

Question 7

Internal working model of others for secure/anxious/avoidant are….. and outline supporting evidence

Answer 7

secure= people are 'well intentioned'
anxious= people are 'unpredictable'
avoidant= people ' not good, but I have control over my life'.

Evidence - ppts looked at neutral faces and rated them for likeability. found anxious had fewer positives, avoidant had more negatives

Hazan & Shaver - interviewed ppts about there relationships with their parents. found secure had respect, avoidant and anxious (insecure) had negative views. also found positive correlation with age, could be age.

Question 8

Insecure people tend to have a ___ view of their partners.

Answer 8

Negative.