Attachment Key Words

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Reciprocity
Description of how two people interact. Mother and infant repsond to each others signals in a synhchronised way.
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Interactional Synchrony
Mother and infant reflect both actions and emotions of the other in a synchornised way.
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Asocial Stage
Recognising and forming bonds with other carers
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Indiscrminate Attachment
Show preference towards people rather than inanimate objects and perfer familliar adults.
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Specific Attachment
Display anxiety towards strangers and become anxious when seprated from particular adult.
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Multiple Attachment
Infants extend attachment behaviour to other adults who they regualry spend time with.
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Imprinting in animals
When a baby hatches the first living thing they see, they recognise as their mother.
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Critical Period for Monkeys
90 days
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Lorenz's Aims
How animals attach by imprinting
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Lorenz's Procedure
Divided a clutch of goose eggs, half with him and half with the goose mother.
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Lorenz's Findings
Incubator group followed Lorenz everywhere and mother goose group followed the mother mother goose everywhere.
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Sexual Imprinting
First living thing an animal sees when hatching, they will direct courship toward them in adult life.
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Harlow's Aims
Do we attach for food or comfort?
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Harlow's Procedure
16 baby rhesus monkeys with wire mother. Both cloth and wire monkey produced food.
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Harlow's Findings
Baby monkey cuddled cloth monkey when frightened even if they had been raised by the wire monkey since birth. They sought comfort not food.
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Cirtical Period for birds
Depdending on the species they need to attach in the first few hours after hatching.
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Secondary Drive
Learned drives acquired through association with primary drive. (Money enables primary drive to be satisfied)
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Primary Drive
Innate drives such as food, water and sex
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Learning Theory
Emphasise the role of learning acquisition of behaviour. (Classical and Operant conditioning)
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Classical Conditioning
Associate two stimuli together so that we start to respond to one in the same way as the other.
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Operant Conditioning
Learning to repeat behaviour.
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Monotropic
One particular attachment is different from all the others and is a central importance to child's development.
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Internal Working Models
Mental representations of primary caregiver. They are important in affecting our future relationships because they carry our preception of what relationships are like.
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Critical Period
Time within attachment must form if it is to form at all.
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Strange Situation
Controlled observation designed to test attachment security.
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Secure Attachment
Most desirable attachemnent type. Asssociated with psychologically healthy outcomes (Type B)
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Insecure-avoident Attachment
Low anxiety but weak attachment (Type A)
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Insecure-resistant Attachment
Strong attachment and high anxiety. (Type C)
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Strange Situation Stages: 1
Child is encouraged to explore (Tests exploration and secure base)
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Strange Situation Stages: 2
Stranger comes in and tries to interact with child (Tests stranger anxiety)`
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Strange Situation Stages: 3
Caregiver leaves child and stranger together (Tests seperation and stranger anxiety)
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Strange Situation Stages: 4
Caregiver returns and stranger leaves (Tests reunion behaviour and exploration/secure base)
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Strange Situation Stages: 5
Caregiver leaves the child alone (Tests seperation anxiety)
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Strange Situation Stages: 6
The stranger returns (Tests stranger anxiety)
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Strange Situation Stages: 7
Caregiver returns and is reunited with the child (Tests reunion behaviour)
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Mother and infant reflect both actions and emotions of the other in a synchornised way.

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Show preference towards people rather than inanimate objects and perfer familliar adults.

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Display anxiety towards strangers and become anxious when seprated from particular adult.

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