Attachment

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Adaptive

Back 1

?

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Affectional

Back 2

?

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Attachment

Back 3

A reciprocal emotional bond between a child and primary caregiver.

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Behavioural categories*

Back 4

?

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Classical conditioning

Back 5

Where somebody learns to associate two things by experiencing them together - e.g. Pavlov's dog associated the bell with food.

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Collectivist culture

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?

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Continuity hypothesis

Back 7

The theory that there is a link between the early attachment relationship and later relationships.

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Controlled observation*

Back 8

?

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Covert observation*

Back 9

?

Front 10

Cross-cultural study

Back 10

?

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Deprivation dwarfism

Back 11

?

Front 12

Disinhibited attachment disorder

Back 12

?

Front 13

Event sampling*

Back 13

?

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Evolution

Back 14

?

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Imprinting

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An innate desire for e.g. geese to form a bond with the first object they see - usual the mother.

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Individualistic culture

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?

Front 17

Innate

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Characteristics that are inborn due to genetic factors

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Insecure - avoidant

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?

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Insecure – disorganised

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?

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Insecure - resistant

Back 20

?

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Internal working model

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A schema of relationships developed from the first attachment relationship - helps to predict and control

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Learning theory of attachment

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The idea that you learn to become attached after birth through the processes of classical and operant conditioning.

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Monotropy

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Bowlby's theory that one special bond enables later emotional development

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Naturalistic observation*

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?

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Operant conditioning

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Learning whether your own actions are likely to be reinforced by rewards or inhibited by punishments.

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Overt observation*

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?

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Primary attachment figure

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The person that a baby first forms a bond with.

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Privation

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?

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Punishment

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?

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Reactive attachment disorder

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?

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Reinforcement

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?

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Response

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?

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Sampling procedures*

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?

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Secure attachment

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?

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Secure base

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A sense of security provided by the attachment figure which enables the baby to explore its surroundings.

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Sensitive period

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The period in which a baby is biologically most successful in forming an attachment - Bowlby said 2nd 3 months

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Separation anxiety

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?

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Social releasers

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Behaviours - e.g crying and cooing - which help the 'mother' and child to form a bond by eliciting appropriate behaviour from the 'mother'

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Stimulus

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?

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Strange Situation

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?

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Stranger anxiety

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?

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Structured observations*

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?

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Time sampling*

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?

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Unstructured observations*

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?

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7 Key Terms in Bowlby's Theory

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Innate; continuity hypothesis; imprinting; internal working model; monotropy; sensitive period; social releasers