Attachment

Question 1

Wilson and Smith

Answer 1

Insecure avoidant children most likely to be bullied
Insecure resistant children most likely to be bullies

Question 2

McCarthy

Answer 2

40 adult women

Securely attached infants had best friendships and relationships as adults

Insecure-avoidant struggle with intimate relationships

Insecure-resistant struggle to maintain relationships

Question 3

Hazan + Shaver

Answer 3

620 replies to love quiz
3 sections-most recent relationships
-general experiences
-attachment type
56% securely - good, long term
25% avoidant - jealous, fear intimacy
19% resistant

Question 4

Bailey

Answer 4

Majority of 99 women had same attachment with own infants as they had with their mothers

Question 5

Zimmerman

Answer 5

Very little relationship between quality of infant attachment type and adolescent attachment to parents

Question 6

Rutter

Answer 6

165 Romanian orphans
52 adopted British children (control)

Rates of recovery related to age of adoption at age 11
Children adopted before 6 months had mean IQ of 102
Children adopted between 6 months-2 yrs with IQ of 86
Children adopted after 2 yrs IQ of 77 (Disinhibited attachment)
Differences remained at age 16

Question 7

Zeanah

Answer 7

95 children aged 12-31 months
Spent most of their lives in institutional care
Compared with 50 children never in institutional care

74% secure- control
19% secure- institutional
65% disorganised

Question 8

Consequences of maternal deprivation

Answer 8

Intellectual development
Goldfarb: lower IQ in institutionalised children than fostered children

Emotional development
-Affectionless Psychopathy
Inability to feel guilt or strong emotions for others

Question 9

Koluchòva

Answer 9

Czech twins recovered fully after being isolated from 18 months to 7 yrs old

SENSITIVE period not critical