OCR GCSE Psychology Studies and Applications Unit 1

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1. What is Secure Attachment?

  • 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 syle characterised by behaviours that avoid contact with the primary caregiver.
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2. 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.

3. 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)

4. What is Maternal Deprivation?

  • A situation in which a child experiences the loss or breaking of an already formed attachment relationship.
  • The breaking of the monotropic bond during early childhood.
  • A situation in which a child has never had the opportunity to form an attachment relationship.

5. 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.
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