A style of attachment that is formed when caregivers respond sensitively to the infant's needs.
An insecure attachment style characterised by behaviours such as clinging to the primary caregiver and extreme distress on seperation from the primary caregiver.
An insecure attachment style characterised by behaviours that avoid contact with the primary caregiver.
7. What is Androgyny?
A set of behaviours that include high levels of both masculine and feminine characteristics.
Pertaining to the production of or tending to produce male offspring. (This is Androgenous - not to be confused with Androgynous)
8. What is Defiance?
A desire to resist the demands of authority and not do as one is told.
The feeling that one is less answerable for one's behaviour because there are other people around. Any "responsibility" is shared so that no individual feels responsible.
9. What is Femininity?
The behaviours and ideas that are considered to be a characteristic of being female. It is also an example of sex typing.
The result of how females must behave in order to maintain a patriarchal social system.
10. What is Sex Identity?
The biological status of being a male or a female.
The psychological status of being a male or a female, including an awareness of which gender you consider yourself to be.
11. What is Encoding (Input)?
The processing of information in such a way that it can be represented internally for memory storage.
The ability to get information from our memory system in order to use it.
12. What is Deprivation?
The breaking of the monotropic bond during early childhood.
A situation in which a child experiences the loss or breaking of an already formed attachment relationship.
A situation in which a child has never had the opportunity to form an attachment relationship.
13. What is Retrieval (Output)?
The ability to get information from our memory system in order to use it.
The processing of information in such a way that it can be represented internally for memory storage.
14. What is Separation Protest?
The distress that young children experience when they are seperated from their primary caregiver.
The distress that young children experience when they are exposed to people who are unfamiliar to them.
15. What is Gender Identity?
The psychological status of being a male or a female, including an awareness of which gender you consider yourself to be.
The biological status of being a male or a female.
16. What is Stranger Anxiety?
The distress that young children experience when they are exposed to people who are unfamiliar to them.
The distress that young children experience when they are seperated from their primary caregiver.
