Quiz 5 Flashcards
(44 cards)
The most important social development that takes place during infancy?
Attachment
The positive emotional bond that develops between a child and a particular individual
Attachment
Behavior that takes place during a critical period that involves attachment to the first moving object that is observed
imprinting
Who studied imprinting on goslings?
Lorenz
Attachment is based on ____________ according to imprinting
bioecological factors
Experiment were monkey’s were giving option of wire monkey with food or soft cloth money and spent more time with cloth monkey.
Harlow Experiment
Contact comfort
Food is more important than comfort
False
Attachment is built primarily on the infants needs for safety and security because
Genetically determined motivation to avoid predators
John Bowlby
Bowlby believes attachment provides a type of ____ and as get older move ______ ______ from home base
home base
further away
A sequence of staged episodes that illustrate the strength of attachment between a child and (typically) his or her mother
Ainsworth Strange Situation
8 steps of “strange situation”
- Mother and baby enter an unfamiliar room
- Mother sits down leaving baby free to explore
- adult stranger enters the room and converses first with the mother and then with the baby
- mother exits the room
5 mother returns greeting and comforting the baby and stranger leaves - mother leaves and baby is alone
- stranger returns
8 mother returns and stranger leaves
A style of attachment in which children use the mother as a kind of home base and are at ease when she is present and when she leaves becomes upset
secure attachment pattern
How many kids in secure category?
2/3
A style of attachment in which children do not seek proximity to the mother; after the mother has left, they seem to avoid her when she returns
Avoidant attachment pattern
Percent of 1 year old with avoidant (indifferent to her behavior)
20%
A style of attachment in which a child display a combination of positive and negative reactions to their mothers
Ambivalent attachment pattern
Kid initially show close contact to mother hardly explore, when leaves distress, when comes back close to her but kick/resist eye contact
Ambivalent
Percent of 1 year old ambivalent
10-15%
A style of attachment in which children show inconsistent often contradictory behavior
disorganized-disoriented attachment pattern
Run to mother when return not look at her all of a sudden angry/confused percent (disorganized)
5-10%
Secure attached kids tend to be _______ socially and emotionally competent. and show ______ psychological difficulties.
more
less
A psychological problem characterized by extreme problems in forming attachments to others. Expressed with feeding difficulties, unresponsiveness to social overtures from others and general failure to thrive
Reactive attachment disorder
Reactive attachment disorder is rare and typically the result of abuse or neglect.
True
Percent of adolescents that report feeling so sad or hopeless for two weeks or more weeks in a row that they stop doing their normal activities.
1/4 adolecents
2/3 teenagers at some point