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Who created the Strange Situation test? |
Ainsworth and Bell |
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What was the aim of the Strange Situation test? |
A method for assessing the quality of attachment |
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Sample? |
100 middle class infants+mothers |
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What is separation anxiety? |
Unease infant shows in absence of caregiver |
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What is stranger anxiety? |
The infant's response to the presence of a stranger |
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Reunion Behaviour? Whass'at? |
The way the infant responds when caregiver returns |
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What is meant by exploration? |
An infant's willingness to explore, using caregiver as a safe base |
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Eight stages of the Strange Situation test? |
1. Infant and mother play |
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Do Insecure avoidant relationships have separation anxiety? How do they react to strangers? |
Little or no separation anxiety, easily comforted by strangers. |
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How do Insecure Ambivalent relationships react to the caregiver leaving and stranger entering? |
They show separation anxiety/discomfort, don't like the strangers. |
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Name 3 social releasers. |
Eyes, crying, laughing |
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When is the critical period? |
From 6 months to 2.5 years. |
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What is the adaptive advantage? |
Our innate ability to seek out what we need, e.g food and warmth. |
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What is mono trophy? |
The one special bond between an infant and its primary care giver. |
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What is the internal working model? |
The way your first relationship sets the framework for all future ones. |
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What is the core study? |
Hazen and Shaver's Love Quiz |
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What was the aim of the core study? |
An investigation into how far our infant relationship affect our future ones. |
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For the acronym of Bowlby's main points, what does each letter mean: |
Adaptive Advantage |
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What was the sample for the Core Study? |
620 people between 14-82 had their answered analysed. |
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Do their findings agree with Bowlby's idea of the internal working model? |
Yes |
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Name three limitations of the Core Study. |
Unrepresentative Sample. |
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What is the Core Theory? |
Strange Situation |
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Alternative Theory? |
Learning- Attachment for food. |
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Applications of this research to real life? |
Knowing how to provide good daycare for young children; e.g give them a mother figure and low staff:child ratio. |
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What is deprivation? |
When a child has formed a bond, then it is broken for one reason or another because of absence of their attachment-partner. |
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What is privation? |
When a child does not have the chance to form an attachment. |