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Bowlby believed that attachment is driven by….

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An innate behavioural system

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How are attachment behaviours activated?

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Under stress

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What are 2 examples of attachment behaviours, once activated, in infancy?

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Crying, clinging

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Attachment and exploration are ________ _________

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Mutually exclusive

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What model does early attachment style create for an individual?

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Internal working models

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What are two examples of behaviours that would indicate the exploration system has been inhibited?

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Monitoring accessibility of caregiver

Maintaining proximity

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What are internal working models?

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Lifelong templates of reliability of relationships

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Which two parenting responses can affect the attachment of an infant?

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1) Sensitive responsiveness of CGs

2) Quality of care

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What are the three main attachment styles?

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1) Secure
2) Insecure avoidant
3) Insecure resistant

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What are 3 characteristics of a secure attachment?

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1) Positive view of self
2) Positive view of others
3) Explore freely in absence of threat

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What are 3 characteristics of insecure avoidant?

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1) Positive view of self
2) Negative view of others
3) Physical/emotional avoidance of attachment figures

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The greater the deviation from secure attachment, the greater……

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The likelihood of dysfunction

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What can a secure attachment predict, in terms of academics?

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Academic achievement

Joint reading/pre-reading skills

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What can an insecure attachment predict, in terms of academic?

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Shorter attention spans

Worse performance on cog tasks

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What did an airport separations study reveal about highly anxious women?

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More distress when separating from their partner

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What did an airport separations study reveal about highly avoidant men/women?

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Less likely to maintain/seek proximity to their partners

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How was adult attachment MEASURED in the airport separations study?

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Experiences in close relationships scale

ECR

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Attachment styles are based off a whole range of experiences, and the ______ ________ of said experience

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Cognitive availability

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How can attachment experience/schema be made more salient in the mind?

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Priming

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What would the ‘secondary drive’ theory predict about proximity seeking?

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It is a learned behaviour rather than an innate drive

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Can attachment and exploration systems be activate at the same time?

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No

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Which system (attachment or exploration) is activated under threat?

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Attachment system activated

23
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Attachment systems and exploration systems are mutually exclusive. This is known as the…..

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See-saw effect

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What is insecure-resistant also known was?

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Anxious ambivalent

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Approximately what percentage of children are securely attached?
50-60%
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In a insecure-avoidant child, being 'good' may equate to...
Not becoming upset
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Inconsistent caregiving is likely to result in...
Insecure resistant attachment type
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What is the 4th type of attachment?
Disorganised
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In high risk samples, up to __ of children may be the 'disorganised' attachment style.
60%
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Which sampling method was employed by Hazan and Shaver?
Opportunity sample
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Do Hazan and Shaver believe their 'love quiz' provided enough evidence to support the notion of an inner working model having a lifelong effect?
Yes
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How long does the inner working model last for?
Life-long
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How does the ECR scale measure attachment? (2 dimensions)
a) Avoidance of emotional intimacy | b) Anxiety about abandonment
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What are Bartholemews 4 styles?
1) Secure 2) Fearful avoidant 3) Preoccupied 4) Dismissing avoidant
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Which of Bartholomews 4 styles is most self sufficient?
Dismissing avoidant
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What behaviours might a coding scheme of separation behaviours involve?
Hugging Crying 'I love you'
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Multiple relationships =
Multiple attachment schema
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General attachment style in adulthood is likely to be based on...
A range of experiences | Cognitive accessibility of these experiences
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Why isn’t an insecure attachment necessarily problematic?
It’s adaptive | Works in the given situation
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In normal samples, what percentage do disorganised children make up?
10-25%
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Was disorganised in the attachment styles identified by Ainsworth originally?
No - subsequently identified
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With disorganised children, the caregiver is (3)
Frightening/frightened Insensitive Aggressive
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Why does a disorganised attachment style present an impossible conundrum for the child?
Biological source of care is also the source of threat
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What kind of behaviour will a disorganised child exhibit?
Inconsistent | Approaching Or avoiding?
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Airport separations study: highly anxious men were less likely to...
Maintain contact
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Airport separations: Highly avoidant men/women:
Less likely to maintain proximity
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What was used to create the ECR scale?
Bartholomew & Horowitz’s 4 factor model
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Are attachment styles traits or situation specific models?
Situation specific models
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Because we have multiple attachment relationships in our network, we have multiple attachment schema...
Some secure | Some insecure
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Our general attachment style is likely to be based of
A whole range of experiences
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Do we have lots of different attachment schema?
Yes
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Pruning procedures can be sub...
Subliminal or supraliminal
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Rowe and Carnelley found, after priming, pps recalled words in a way...
Congruent with the style they were primed with
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Security priming (recent developments) may be able to improve...(3)
Relationship expectations Attachment anxiety Compassion/altruism

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