Attachment in adults

The article, “A Secure Base for Babies: Applying Attachment Concepts to the Infant Care Setting” written by Helen Raikes, talks about the importance and how crucial secure attachment is to not only a child’s parents, but to also their teachers as well. In the article, Raikes brings up many important arguments that clearly prove the necessity of having secure attachments in a child’s life to effectively develop emotionally, physically and psychologically in order to become functioning members of…

Case File One: Assignment Two 1. Comment on the quality of the attachment relationship between Vincent and his mother. Based on this, do you think that Vincent is at risk for developmental problems? If so, explain. Throughout the case, we learned that Vincent and his mother had a strong bond, which caused some issues when being placed in foster care. While in foster care, he continuously asked when his mother was coming to visit, but after being told she is still getting better, he seemed to be…

Investigation: The influence of birth order on personality Report Introduction Birth order is defined as an ordinal position of a child’s birth in relation to their siblings. A firstborn is a child who is born first within the family, and a later-born is a child born after the first child. Personality is defined as a pattern of thought, feelings or behaviour that makes an individual unique. The big 5 personality traits are five main domains or dimensions of personality used to represent human…

and other things. Reading the article, there were some topics in psychology that could be linked to the concept of resilience. The types of attachment theory by Mary Ainsworth, our perception, and also the contexts of development. First of all, attachment is the process whereby children develop a bond between their caregivers or mothers. The types of attachment developed by Mary Ainsworth are secure, insecure-avoidant, disorganized, and insecure resistant. Those who were secured were able to…

Another example of our genes setting us up for social interactions is our eye sight ability. A new born child can only see about eight to thirteen inches. Many researchers have concluded that this is a biology preparing us for our social world, because 8 to 13 inches is about the length of where the new born usually breast feeds. It has also been found that newborns prefer looking at areas of high contrast such as the eyes. (Dunlea, Lecture 4/06/2017, Infant’s Biological Preparedness for Social…

named this attachment), that should ideally occur between an infant and mother, and his results found they later exhibited behaviors associated with psychological disorders. Harry Harlow is famous for his ‘wire monkeys’ series of experiments that he performed in the 1950’s. This experiment is salient to me because it shows just how powerful a sense of comfort truly is. I found it amazing that the monkeys…

Lahar Parikh Assignment #1 Human Development A. From an attachment theoretical point of view, I believe that a doctor would first examine a patient’s background in order to find out what attachment style best fits the patient. If the patient had a secure relationship with authoritative figures as child, the doctor would be more inclined to provide emotional and physical support. Secure attachment makes it possible for doctors and patients to have a comfortable relationship where not much…

facets. Researchers can evaluate different personal qualities in individuals, such as attachment style, materialism, self-esteem, and self-worth to see how they all relate in social psychology. The manner in which people form and maintain long-term relationships is called attachment style (Hazan and Shaver, 1987). Psychologists have developed several classification systems to identify and categorize different attachment styles, but the oldest and most popularized…

Nitzberg (2005) study links between attachment security, altruism, and care giving aiming to theorize altruism relative to Bowlby’s attachment theory (1969/1982) which treats altruism as part of care giving. Care giving is an inborn scheme of reactions to others needs, evolved from early emotional caregiver relations and influenced by attachment security. Networks of expectations, behaviours, and emotions related to socialisation lead to secure, anxious or avoidant attachment which predict…

Karen Horney theorized that when needs are not met in childhood that the children develop basic anxieties in adulthood. Horney believed that people tend to combat basic anxiety in three ways: by moving toward people, moving away from people, or moving against people. Those with tendencies to move toward people have compliant personalities. Some of the neurotic needs of this personality type include the need for affection and approval from others, and the need for a powerful partner. These…