Attachment studies

1. Securely attached children were less likely to be involved in bullying, insecure avoidant were likely to be victims and insecure resistant were more likely to bully (5, 6, 5)
5. Adult attachment types roughly matched children's attachment types in Ainsworth's strange situation and there's a positive correlation between attachment type and relationship experiences (5, 6)
6. Interactional synchrony doesn't occur in all cultures: Kenyan mothers have little physical contact or interaction with infants (2, 4, 2, 2)
7. In PET scans, Romanian orphans showed decreased activity in the pre-frontal cortex, hippocampus and amygdala suggesting long term cognitive and behavioural problems (7)

2. 75% of infants form an attachment with the father by the age of 18 months (8, 8)
3. Findings: the monkeys attached to the soft cloth mother rather than the mother who provided food (6)
4. Interactional synchrony shown when infants as old as 2-3 weeks mimicked adults facial expressions and gestures (7, 5)
8. Romanian adoptees showed greater improvements in physical and cognitive development the younger they were adopted and those adopted after 6 months showed attention seeking behaviour, clinginess and inappropriate familiarity to strangers (6)
9. The role of the father is largely ignored by the monotropic theory: attachments to fathers are formed for different reasons eg. play (4)
10. At age 12, children fostered before age 4 months had an average IQ of 96 compared to those who remained in an orphanage with an average IQ of 68 (8)

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