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Attatchment Flashcards

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What is Attachment?

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Two-way enduring emotional tie to another person.

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What is Reciprocity?

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A description of how two people interact.

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What is Interactional Synchrony?

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Caregiver and baby reflect both the actions and emotions of the other. The actions become synchronised.

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What is a Caregiver?

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The person who looks after an infant.

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What are the Stages of Attachment?

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Many developmental theories identify a sequence of qualitative different behaviours linked to specific ages.

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What is Multiple Attachments?

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Attachments to two or more people.

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What are the Animal Studies?

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In psychology there are studies on animals for ethical or practical reasons.

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What is the Learning Theory?

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A set of theories from the behaviourist approach to psychology that emphasizes the role of learning.

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What is a Father?

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The main male caregiver.

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What is Montropic?

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A term sometimes used to describe Bowlby’s theory.

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What is the Critical Period?

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The time within which an attachment must form if it is to form at all.

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What is the Internal Working Model?

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Our mental representations of the world. This model affects our future relationships because it carries our perception of what relationships are like.

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What is a strange situation?

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A controlled observation designed to test attachment security.

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What is Secure Attachment?

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Generally thought of as the most desirable attachment type.

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What is Insecure-Avoidant Attachment?

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An attachment type characterised by low anxiety but weak attachment.

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What is Insecure-Resistant Attachment?

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An attachment type characteristic by strong attachment and high anxiety.

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What are cultural variations?

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The differences in norms and values that exist between people in different groups.

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What is Maternal Deprivation?

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The emotional and intellectual consequences of separation between a mother and child type person.

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What are orphan studies?

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These concern children placed in care because their parents cannot look after them.

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What is Institutionalisation?

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A term for the effect of living in an institutional setting.

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What is a childhood relationship?

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Affiliations with other people in childhood, including friends and classmates, and with adults like teachers.

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What is an adult relationship?

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Those relationships the child goes on to have later in life as an adult.

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What is Affectionless Psychopathy?

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A term used by Bowlby to describe people who don’t show concern or affection for other people and show no or very little remorse or guilt.

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What is the Asocial Stage?

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The stage from 0-6 weeks where the infant may respond to faces or voices but an attachment has not been formed.

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What is Contact Comfort?

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The physical and emotional comfort that an infant receives from being close to it’s mother.

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What is Disinhibited Attachment?

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Child shows equal affection to strangers as they do people they know well.

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What is Imprinting?

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Where offspring follow the first large-moving object they see.

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What is Indiscriminate Attachment?

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Infants aged 2-7 months can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar people but doesn’t show stranger anxiety.

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What is Innate Behaviour?

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A behaviour that is instinctive and doesn’t need to be learned.

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What is Privation?

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Failure to form an attachment in early childhood.

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What is Proximity Seeking?

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The way that infants try to maintain physical contact or be close to their attachment figure.

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What is a sensitive period?

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The best time period over which attachments can form.

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What is Separation Anxiety?

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Degree of distress shown by the child when separated from the caregiver.

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What are Social Releasers?

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Innate behaviours shown by an infant that lead to a caregiving response.

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What is Stranger Anxiety?

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Degree of distress shown by an infant when with unfamiliar people.

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What is Temperament?

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The characteristics and aspects of personality an infant is born with and that might impact on its attachment type.

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