Chapter 3 - Attachment

Across

• 1. Generally thought of as the most desirable attachment type, associated with psychologically healthy outcomes. In the strange situation this is shown by moderate stranger and separation anxiety and ease of comfort and reunion (6, 10)
• 5. A term sometimes used to describe Bowlby's theory. The mono means "one" and indicates that one particular attachment is different from all other and of central importance to the child's development (10)
• 6. Refers to time which an attachment must form if it is to form at all. Lorenz and Harlow saw attachment in birds and monkeys had these. Bowlby extended this to humans proposing humans had sensitive period where after it, attachment is hard to form (8, 6)
• 7. A description of how two people interact. Mother-infant interaction is reciprocal in that both the mother and the infant respond to each other's signals and each elicts a response from the other (11)
• 8. Studies carried out on non human species rather than on humans either for ethical or practical reasons. Practical because animals breed faster and researchers are interested in seeing results across more than one generation of animals (6, 7)
• 9. Culture refers to norms and values existing in any group of people. Cultural variations then are the differences in norms and values that exist between people in different groups; concerns proportions of children with different attachment type (8, 10)
• 10. Attachments to two or more people. Most babies appear to develop multiple attachments once they have formed one true attachment with their main carer (8, 11)