Bowlby's Theory of Primary Caregivers

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What does Monotropy mean?
The idea that a child forms an attachment to a primary caregiver (this attachment being better with time)
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What did Bowlby call constant and predictable care (resulting in better quality attachments)?
Law of Continuity
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What is the lowest score for the Law Of Accumulated Separation and why?
0, because the lowest amount of separations is none
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What did Bowlby say attachment was good for?
Survival (for evolution), keeping the baby close to the caregiver
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When is the attachment system active?
Up to 2 1/2 years
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What are social releasers?
Things that babies do that activate adult attachment systems
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What did Hazen and Shaver do to support Bowlby?
Conducted a 'love quiz'. Those who were secure went on to become happy and trusting of parents as adults.
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Who studied mothers and found that bad parental bonds lead to bad child bonds?
Bailey
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What did Lorenz's study of imprinting do to support Bowlby?
Imprinting is pre-programmed (evolution)
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Why is Monotrophy socially insensitive?
May dictate the lives of mothers, or cause mothers to blame themselves (Burman)
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What did Schaffer and Emerson say that contradicts Bowlby?
children are able to form multiple attachments at the same time
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Who said that children have different attachments for different purposes?
Lamb
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What did Kagan say about Bowlby's theory?
Some babies are more sociable than others (temperament, not attachment)
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