Attachment is an enduring emotional tie to a special person,characterised by a tendency to seek and maintain closeness, especially during times of stress
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What is the attachment theory?
1) If the child expericences love and affection. 2) If the child experiences rejection, abuse or neglect may base their working model on denial. They believe that they don't deserve to be unloved.
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Who was John Bowlby?
John Bowlby was a psycoanylst and psychiatrist, working at the London Child Guidence Clinic in the 1930s and 1940s.
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What did Bowlby believe?
He believed that mental health and behavioural problems could be attributed to early childhood.
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What is Proximity Maintenance?
Proximity Maintenance is to desire to be rear the people we are attatched to.
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What is Safe Haven?
Safe Haven is returning to the attachment figure for comfort and safety in the face of fear or threat.
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What is Secure Base?
Secure Base is the attachment figure acts as a base of security from which the children explore the surrounding environment.
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What is Seperation Distress?
Seperation Distress is anxiety that occurs in the absence of the attatchment figure.
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What were the Problems with Harlow's research?
His experiments have been seen as unnecessarily cruel(unethical) and of limited value in attempting to understand the effects of deprivation or human infants.
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who was Mary Ainsworth?
Mary Ainsworth was interested in exploring the differences in the attachments
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What factors affect Attachment in children?
the factors that attachment in children is birth trauma,being breast fed, premature-hospital, illness-hospital, drugs/alcohol- addicted-hospital and gender
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What is the attachment theory?
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1) If the child expericences love and affection. 2) If the child experiences rejection, abuse or neglect may base their working model on denial. They believe that they don't deserve to be unloved.
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