Attachments

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An emotional bond between two people which is shown by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity.
Attachment
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This is a person who has formed the closest bond with the child, demonstrated by the intensity of the relationship. This is usually a child's biological mother, but other people can fulfill the role such as an adoptive mother, father or grandparent.
Primary Attachment Figure
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This is an explanation of attachment which is made up of two parts - operant conditioning and classical conditioning, which explains behaviour in terms of learning rather than inborn tendencies or higher order thinking
Learning Theory
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Refers to characteristics that are inborn, a product of genetic factors. These traits may be apparent at birth or may appear later as a result of maturation.
Innate
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The idea that emotionally secure infants go on to be emotionally secure, trusting and socially confident adults.
Continuity Hypothesis
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A innate readiness to develop a strong bond with a mother figure, which takes place during a critical or sensitive period
Imprinting
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A mental model of the world that enables individuals to predict and control their environment. The internal working model gives a child the idea of how a partnership can be formed and acts as a template for all future relationships.
Internal Working Model
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The idea that the one relationship that the infant has with their primary attachment figure is of special significance in emotional development.
Monotropy
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A biologically determined period of time during which the child is particularly sensitive to a specific form of stimulation, resulting in the development of a specific response or characteristic
Sensitive Period
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This is a period of time where a attachment needs to be made for a secure attachments to be made in the future. Bowlby believed the critical period to be 2 and a half years.
Critical Period
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A social behaviour or characteristics that elicits a care giving reaction. Bowlby suggested that these were innate and adaptive and critical in the process of forming attachments. Examples include; smiling, crying, and making cooing noises.
Social Releasers
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The belief that children form secure attachments simply because they have a more easy temperament from birth, whereas innately difficult children are more likely to form insecure attachments and later relationships.
Temperament Hypothesis
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This is a strong attachment which develops as a result of sensitive responding by the caregiver to the infants needs. Securely attached infants are comfortable with social interaction and intimacy.
secure attachment
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This is a style of attachment characterizes children who tend to avoid social interaction and intimacy with others.
Insecure Avoidant
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This attachment is characterized by children who both seek and reject intimacy and social interaction.
Insecure Resistant
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This is believed to be a type of attachment where there is a lack of consistency is their patterns of behaviour.
Insecure Disorganised
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This distress is shown by an infant when they are separated from their primary caregiver.
Separation Anxiety
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This distress is shown by an infant when they are approached or picked up by someone who is unfamiliar
Stranger Anxiety
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A type of disorganized attachment where children do not discriminate between people they chose as attachment figures. Such children will treat near-strangers with inappropriate familiarity and may be attention seeking.
Dis-inhibited Attachment
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Describes the result of the institutional care. A institute is a place dedicated to a particular task, such as looking after children awaiting adoption, or caring for the mentally ill, or looking after patients in hospital.
Institutionalization
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The lack of having any attachments due to the failure to develop such attachments during early life.
Privation
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This refers to a form of temporary care not given by family members or someone well known to the child, and usually outside the home.
Day Care
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The aspect of a child's growth concerned with the development of sociability, where the child learns how to relate to others, and with the process of socialization, in which the child acquires the knowledge and skills appropriate to that society.
Social Development
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This is a person who has formed the closest bond with the child, demonstrated by the intensity of the relationship. This is usually a child's biological mother, but other people can fulfill the role such as an adoptive mother, father or grandparent.

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Learning Theory

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Innate

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