Attachment is an emotional bond between 2 people, where each person feels secure in the presence of their attachment figure.
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What is reciprocity?
Reciprocity is a form of interaction between infant and caregiver involving mutual responsiveness, with both infant and mother responding to each other’s signals and each envokes a response from the other.
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What is Interactional Synchrony?
Interactional synchrony is when two people interact and tend to mirror what the other is doing in terms of their facial and body movements (emotions and behaviours).
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What is critical period?
A time period where an attachment has to form or it never will.
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What is Imprinting?
It is when offspring follow the first large-moving object they see.
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What is Innate behaviour?
A behaviour that is instinctive and does not need to be learned.
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What is Insecure avoidant attachment?
Attachment classification in Strange Situation where child shows low stranger and separation anxiety and little response to reunion.
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What is Insecure resistant attachment?
Attachment classification in Strange Situation where child shoes high stranger and separation anxiety and resists comfort at reunion.
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What is Institutionalisation?
The effects of growing up in an institution, such as a children's home or orphanage.
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What is Interactional synchrony?
Infant and caregiver reflect each other's actions and emotions in a coordinated manner.
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What is the Internal working model?
Mental representation of our relationship with our primary caregiver that becomes a template for future relationships.
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What is Learning theory?
Explanations that emphasise the role of learning in acquiring behaviours such as attachment.
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What is Monotropy?
A unique and close attachment to one person - the primary attachment figure.
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What is Multiple attachments?
It is the formation of emotional bonds with more than one carer.
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What is a secure attachment?
It is the most desirable attachment classification in Strange Situation where child shows separation anxiety, stranger anxiety and joy on reunion
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What is a Sensitive period?
It is the best time period over which attachments can form.
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What is Separation anxiety?
It is the degree of distress shown by the child when separated from the caregiver
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What are Social releasers?
They are Innate behaviours shown by an infant that lead to a caregiving response.
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What is Specific attachment?
Infants aged 7 months tend to show a strong attachment to one particular person and are wary of strangers.
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What is the Strange Situation?
It is a controlled observation used to test children’s attachment patterns
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What is Stranger anxiety?
It is the degree of distress shown by an infant when with unfamiliar people.
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Reciprocity is a form of interaction between infant and caregiver involving mutual responsiveness, with both infant and mother responding to each other’s signals and each envokes a response from the other.
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