Attachment Flashcards
What is an attachment bond?
An enduring two-way emotional tie to a specific other person, normally between a parent and child.
What is interactional synchrony?
The coordinated rhythmic exchanges between carer and infant.-Infants move their bodies in tune with the rhythm of carers spoken language to create a kind of turning-taking as seen with two-way vocal conversations with reinforce the attachment bond.
What is Reciprocity?
The interaction of similar behaviour patterns between the carer and infant which results in mutual behaviour with both parties being able to produce responses from each other.
What is Bodily contact?
Physical interactions between carer and infant help to form the attachment bond, especially in the period after birth.
What is Mimicking?
Infants seem to have an innate ability to imitate carers’ facial expression.
What is Caregiverese?
Interaction with infants use a modified form of vocal language that is high pitched, song like in nature, slow and repetitive.
What are the stages of attachement?
Pre-attachment phase.( birth to 3month)
Indiscriminate Attachment phase. (3 to 7/8 month)
Discriminate attachment phase(7/8mont +)
Multiple attachment stage(9 month+)
What is the pre-attachment phase?
Infants become attracted to other humans preferring them to objects and events-demonstrated by smiling at peoples faces.
What is indiscriminate attachment?
Infants begin to discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar people, smiling more at known people though they will still allow strangers to handle them.
What is the discriminate phase?
Infants begin to develop specific attachments staying close to particular people and becoming distressed when separated from them. They avoid unfamiliar people and protest if strangers try to handle them.
What is the multiple attachment stage/
Infants form strong emotional ties with other major, caregivers, like grandparents and non-caregivers, like other children. Their fear of strangers weakens, but attachment to over the mother figure remains strongest.
What affects the role of the father in attachment?
Degree of Sensitivity
Type of attachment with own parents
Martial Intimacy
Supportive co-parenting
What is degree of sensitivity?
More secure attachments to their children are found in fathers who show more sensitivity to children’s needs.
What is type of attachment with own parents?
Single parent fathers tend to form similar attachments with their children that they had with their own parents.
What is marital intimacy?
The degree of intimacy a father has within his relationship with his partner affect the type of attachment he will have with his children.
What is supportive co-parenting?
The amount of support the father gives to his partner in helping to care for children affects the type of attachment he will have with his children.
What is imprinting?
A form of attachment where offspring follow the first large moving object.
What is sensitive period?
The best time period within which attachments can form, though they still can form with more difficulty outside this period.
What is the learning theory as an explanation for attachment?
The belief that attachments develop through conditioning processes.
What is classical conditioning?
Occurs when a response produced naturally by a certain stimulus, becomes associated with another stimulus that is not normally associated with that particular response.
What is operant conditioning?
Learning occurs via reinforcement of behaviour thus increasing the chance of the behaviour occuring again.
What is the cupboard love theory?
The belief that attachment are formed with people who feed infants.
What is Bowbly’s monotropic theory?
The idea that infants have an inbuilt tendency to make an initial attachment with one attachment figure, usually the mother.
What are social releaser?
Innate, infant social behaviour that stimulates adult interaction and caregiving.
