attachment overview
- Created by: maggiejune
- Created on: 28-04-18 21:45
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- Attachments
- Caregiver-infant
- Interactional Synchrony = mirroring
- Higher synchrony means stronger attachments
- Reciprocity like a dance where you respond to eachother
- Role of the father
- Secondary attachments are usually with father
- Fathers are stimulating in play and fun rather than care
- Fathers can be primary if they show sensitivity and care
- Schaffners Stages
- Asoical, Indiscriminat,Specific, Multiple
- 60 babies from Glasgow, 50% separation anxiety after one year
- Animal studies
- Lorenz and his imprinting on baby geese
- Harlow and his 16 rehus monkeys that preferred love over food
- Learning Theory
- Classical conditioning means the CR of pleasure is associated
- Operant conditioning means crying is reinforced because consequence is pleasure
- Ainsworths Strange Situation
- Studied infants in proximity seeking, reunion, stranger & separation anxiety
- Secure, avoidant, and resistant babies
- Cultural Variations
- Meta analysis of 32 strange situations
- Difference between individualist and collectivist cultures
- Due to mothers working longer hours
- Maternal Deprivation
- Seperation vs deprivation
- Can cause low IQ and affection less psychology
- Romanian Orphans
- 165 romanian orphans that moved to the UK, later adopted the lower their IQ
- Institution children weren't likely to be securely attached
- Influence in later life
- First attachments are templates and if they're not good they never will be
- Securely attached people less likely to be bullies
- Caregiver-infant
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