Developmental Psychology

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Attachment

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A close emotional bond between an infant and its caregiver

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Disruption

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When an attachment is formed then broken

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Critical Period

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The first 3 years of a child's life, outside of which attachments cannot be made (says Bowlby)

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Innate

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Natural, In nature

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Anxious-avoidant (Type A)

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Child is indifferent to all, plays happily by itself

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Classical Conditioning

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Behaviours can be learned through association

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Secure Attachment (Type B)

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Type B attachment; child uses mother as safe base and is distressed when she leaves

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Protest (PDD Model)

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An outward and direct expression of the child's fear and anger, screaming, kicking, clinging

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Monotropy

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The theory that we can each only have 1 special attachment, generally the mother.

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Social Releasers

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A behaviour that elicits caregiving

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Privation

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When a child has never formed an attachment

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Operant Conditioning

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A child will learn that certain behaviours have certain reactions and consequences

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Social Development

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Development of a child's social competence and formation of close and meaningful relationships

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Anxious-resistant (Type C)

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A fussy, clingy child who is exceptionally distresed at the mothers leaving, but angry at her return

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Day Care

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Daytime supervision and recreational facilities for pre-school children

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Despair (PDD Model)

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Calmer and more apathetic behaviour, prefers to comfort itself by rocking or thumb-sucking

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Internal Working Model

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Mental representation of future relationships drawn from initial attachment

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Detachment (PDD Model)

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The child treats everyone equally and rather superficially and will have to re-learn its attachments