Developmental Attachment
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- Created on: 05-01-15 17:01
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- Developmental
- Strange Situation
- 100 middle-class American infants and mothers.
- 1. Mother and child introduced to the room.
- 2. Mother and child left in room to play with toys.
- 3. Stranger enters room, talks to mother. Approaches infant with toy.
- 4. Mother leaves child alone with stranger. Stranger plays with child.
- 5. Mother returns and greets and comforts the child.
- 6. Child left on own.
- 7. Stranger returns and tries to interact with child.
- 8. Mother returns, greets and picks up child. Stranger leaves.
- 7. Stranger returns and tries to interact with child.
- 6. Child left on own.
- 5. Mother returns and greets and comforts the child.
- 4. Mother leaves child alone with stranger. Stranger plays with child.
- 3. Stranger enters room, talks to mother. Approaches infant with toy.
- 2. Mother and child left in room to play with toys.
- Types of Attachment
- Securely Attached
- 66%
- Mothers are sensitive.
- Explore room. Subdued when mother left, positively greeted her when returned.
- Avoidant-Insecure
- 22%
- Mothers sometimes ignored infants.
- Didn't orientate to mother when exploring. Not concerned by her absence. Little interest when she returned.
- Resistant-Insecure
- 12%
- Mothers behaved ambivalently.
- Intense distress, especially when mother is absent. Rejected her when she returned.
- Securely Attached
- Meta Analysis Study
- Ethical Issues
- The code of ethics and conduct.
- Harlow's monkeys didn't develop properly. They were abusive and had trouble mating.
- The strange situation can distress children, causing psychological damage.
- Correlation
- Refers to the extent to which values on different variables co-vary.
- Correlation Coefficient
- Descriptive statistic with a numerical value between -1 and +1. It demonstrates the direction and strength of any relationship existing between two sets of data.
- Correlational Analysis
- Technique used to test a hypothesis using an association that is measured between two variables that are thought to co-vary.
- Methodological
- Analysis of methods used in a study.
- Institutional Care
- Effects of privation.
- Untitled
- Effects of privation.
- Learning Theory
- Classical Conditioning
- A neutral stimulus is partied with a stimulus that already produces a response, so that over time, the neutral stimulus also produces that response.
- Harlow's Infant Monkeys
- Baby monkeys placed in a cage with a wire mesh mother providing food and a clothed mother providing comfort. If food was the cause of attachment monkeys should form an attachment to wire mesh mother with food. However, the monkeys preferred comfort mother.
- Classical Conditioning
- Strange Situation
- Learning Theory
- Classical Conditioning
- A neutral stimulus is partied with a stimulus that already produces a response, so that over time, the neutral stimulus also produces that response.
- Harlow's Infant Monkeys
- Baby monkeys placed in a cage with a wire mesh mother providing food and a clothed mother providing comfort. If food was the cause of attachment monkeys should form an attachment to wire mesh mother with food. However, the monkeys preferred comfort mother.
- Classical Conditioning
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