Attachment Key Terms

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Attachment
A deep and enduring emotional bond, it connects on person to another over time and space.
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Reciprocity
How 2 people interact when both infant and caregiver respond to each others signals and elicit a response from each other.
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International Synchrony
Infant and caregiver reflect both actions and emotions of the other in a co-ordinated and synchronised way.
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Asocial Attachment
Infant begins to recognise and form bonds with their carers but a similar action with non-human and human objects are shown showing some preference to familiar adults.
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Indiscriminate Attachment
Infants display more observable social behaviour showing a preference for people rather than inanimate objects and recognise familiar adults
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Specific Attachment
Display anxiety towards strangers and become anxious when separated from their primary caregiver,
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Multiple Attachment
Attachments to two or more people that develop once infants have developed an attachment to their main carer.
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Imprinting
An innate readiness to develop a strong bond with the mother taking place during a specific period.
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Critical Period
The time after birth where an attachment must be formed if it is to form at all.
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Innate Programming
Behaviours that are biologically programmed to help the infant survive and form attachments.
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Internal Working Model
A blueprint/template to all relationships in the future.
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Monotropy
The first special bond between baby and primary caregiver (usually mother)
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Proximity
Seeking closeness to the primary caregiver to help form an attachment in order to survive
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Social Releasers
Behaviours that encourage interaction between baby and caregiver e.g. making noises.
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Secure Attachment
The most desirable attachment type, it is associated with psychologically healthy outcomes. It is showcased by moderate stranger and seperation anxiety and ease of comfort at reunion
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Insecure Avoidant Attachment
An attachment type characterised by low stranger anxiety but weak attachment, they have low stranger and separation anxiety while also avoiding contact at reunion
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Insecure Resistant Attachment
An attachment type characterised by strong attachment and high anxiety towards strangers and at separation but resist comfort
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Proximity Seeking
The infant remains close or has physical contact with their attachment figure.
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Stranger Anxiety
A form of distress from an infant when they are in the presence/exposed to strangers either with or without the caregiver.
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Separation Anxiety
Anxiety provoked in a child in threat of separation or separation from their main caregiver.
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Maternal Deprivation
The emotional and intellectual consequences of separation between a child and his/her mother
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Privation
The child has never had the opportunity to form an attachment with any caregiver
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Institutionalisation
The effects of living in an institutional setting e.g. an orphanage , there is often very little care provided.
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How 2 people interact when both infant and caregiver respond to each others signals and elicit a response from each other.

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Reciprocity

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Infant and caregiver reflect both actions and emotions of the other in a co-ordinated and synchronised way.

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Infant begins to recognise and form bonds with their carers but a similar action with non-human and human objects are shown showing some preference to familiar adults.

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Infants display more observable social behaviour showing a preference for people rather than inanimate objects and recognise familiar adults

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