Developmental Psychology

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Attachment
A two-way, enduring, emotional tie to a specific other person.
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Cupboard Love Theory
Attachments formed with people who feed infants.
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Imprinting
A form of attachment where offspring follow the first large moving object encountered.
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Critical Period
A specific time period within which an attachment must form.
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Social Releasers
Infant social behaviours stimulating adult interaction and care giving.
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Monotropy
An innate tendency to become attached to one particular adult (usually the mother).
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Strange Situation
An observational testing procedure measuring the quality of attachments.
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Stranger Anxiety
Distress shown by infants when in the presence of unfamiliar persons.
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Securely Attached
Willing to explore, high stranger anxiety, easy to soothe and enthusiastic on return of the care-giver.
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Insecure Avoidant
Willing to explore, low stranger anxiety, indifferent to separation and avoided contact at return of care-giver.
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Insecure Resistant
Unwilling to explore, high stranger anxiety, distressed at separation and sought and rejected contact at the return of care-giver.
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Continuity Hypothesis
The idea that there is consistency between early emotional experiences and later relationships.
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Affectionless Psychopathy
Lacking a social conscience.
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Deprivation
Separation from an attachment figure.
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Privation
Never having formed an attachment.
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Attachments formed with people who feed infants.

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Cupboard Love Theory

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A form of attachment where offspring follow the first large moving object encountered.

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A specific time period within which an attachment must form.

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Infant social behaviours stimulating adult interaction and care giving.

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