Attachment Flashcards

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  • Created on: 21-04-18 15:15
Attachment
An emotional bond between two people. It's a two-way process that endures over time. It leads to certain behaviours such as clinging and proximity-seeking and serves the function of protecting an infant
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Caregiver
Any person who is providing care for a child, such as a parent, grandparent or sibling etc.
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Interactional Synchrony
When two people interact, they tend to mirror what the other is doing in terms of their facial and body movements. This includes imitating emotions as well as behaviours. This is described as synchrony- when two things move in the same patterns
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Reciprocity
Responding to the action of another with a similar action, where the actions of one partner elicit a response from the other partner. The responses aren't necessarily similar, as in interactional synchrony
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Multiple Attachment
Having more than one attachment figure
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Primary Attachment Figure
The person who has formed the closes bond with a child,demonstrated by the intensity of the relationship.This is usually a child's biological mother, but other people can fulfil this role
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Separation Anxiety
The distress shown by an infant when separated from his/her caregiver- this isn't necessarily the child's biological mother
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Stranger Anxiety
The distress shown by an infant when approached or picked up by someone who is unfamiliar
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Imprinting
An innate readiness to develop a strong bond with the mother which takes place during a specific time in development, probably the first few hours after hatching/birth. If it doesn't happen at this time, it probably won't happen.
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Classical Conditioning
Learning through association. A NS is consistently paired with an UCS, so that it eventually takes on the properties of this stimulus and is able to produce a conditioned response
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Operant Conditioning
Learning through reinforcement
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Learning Theory
Name given to a group of explanations (classical and operant conditioning), which explain behaviour in terms of learning, rather than any inborn tendencies or higher order thinking
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Social Learning Theory
Learning through observing others and imitating behaviours that are rewarded.
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Continuity Hypothesis
The idea that emotionally secure infants go on to be emotionally secure, trusting and socially confident adults
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Critical Period
A biologically determines period of time, during which certain characteristics can develop. Outside of this time window, such development will not be possible
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Internal Working Model
A mental model of the world which enables individuals to predict and control their environment. In the case of attachment, the model relates to a person's expectations about relationships
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Monotropy (Monotropic)
The idea that the one relationship that the infant has with his/her primary attachment figure is of special significance in emotional development
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Social Releaser
A social behaviour or characteristic that elicits care-giving and leads to attachment
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Insecure-avoidant
A type of attachment which describes those children who tend to avoid social interaction and intimacy with others
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Insecure-resistant
A type of attachment which describes those infants who both seek and reject intimacy and social interaction, i.e. resist.
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Secure attachment
A strong and contented attachment of an infant to his/her caregiver, which develops as a result of sensitive responding by the caregiver to the infant's needs. Securely attached infants are comfortable with social interaction and intimacy.
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Strange Situation
A controlled observation designed to test attachment security
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Cultural Variations
The ways that different groups of people vary in terms of their social practices, and the effects these practices have on development and behaviour
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Culture
Refers to all the rules, customs, morals and ways on interacting that bind together members of a society or some other collection of people
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Deprivation
To lose something. It refers to the loss of emotional care that is normally provided by a primary caregiver
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Privation
Occurs when a child has never been able to form any attachments
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Separation
Occurs when a child is physically separated from his/her primary caregiver
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Institutionalisation
How time spent in an institution such as an orphanage can affect the development of children. The possible effects include social, mental and physical underdevelopment. Some of these effects may be irreversible
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Any person who is providing care for a child, such as a parent, grandparent or sibling etc.

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Caregiver

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When two people interact, they tend to mirror what the other is doing in terms of their facial and body movements. This includes imitating emotions as well as behaviours. This is described as synchrony- when two things move in the same patterns

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Responding to the action of another with a similar action, where the actions of one partner elicit a response from the other partner. The responses aren't necessarily similar, as in interactional synchrony

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Card 5

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Having more than one attachment figure

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