John Bowlby

Case History: Kevin was just your ordinary kid, the youngest of many children in the McCallister family. He was, as the movie portrayed him, the least popular member of the family, being bullied by his older brother Buzz and often ignored by his parents and cousins. This neglect reaches its peak when Kevin is left at home alone, the kid is eight remember, while the rest of his family rushes to the airport to board a flight to Paris after the power goes out and they oversleep. In fact, his…

Bowlby believed that the earliest bonds formed by children with their main carers have a tremendous impact on the rest of their lives. Bowlby's attachment theory suggests that children need to have a strong attachment with their main care giver in order…

As attachment researchers have become interested in studying attachment security at older ages, the Strange Situation as the “gold standard” of attachment assessment has remained central. Today researchers developing assessments of attachment for children or adolescents frequently (a) use the same fourfold classification system of the Strange Situation, (b) seek to validate their measures by showing that infants who are securely or insecurely attached in the Strange Situation obtain the same…

However, John and Jane McCormick’s story was different. John and Jane decided to adopt two children from Europe from an orphanage: a boy name Alex (two years old) and Nadia (nine months old). Alex and Nadia had two different personalities from each other. Nadia gave affection to her parents…

The Strange Situlation: This experiment consist of how a child reacts when his or her mother leaves the room and enter a stranger. There are four type of attachment according to this experiment: Secure attachment, insecure attachment, insecure resistant and insecure disorganized. Secure attachment consist of when the child is stressed when his or her mother leaves, however become less stress when the mother returned. Out of all the participants, 66 percent of children fell under this category.…

The two versions of the poem are very similar yet they have different meanings. With only changing a few words, William Carlos Williams gives the poem a new meaning. I think this shows that just by ommiting one word, it can make a whole difference. However version 2 portrays imagism in a better way. Version 1 narrates a woman sitting near a window with a small little child. The woman has tears running down her face. The child seems to be her baby, who may be stealing her. The true meaning of…

The PFC plays an essential role in behaviour and response mechanisms. The development of the brain reflects observed factors that shape and emerge the brain (Siddiqui et al. 2008). Brains that are exposed to different environmental events such as anxiety, drugs or stress may develop in very alternate ways (Siddiqui et al. 2008). Infants face multiple adversities in early life, whether it is adapting to be dependent on their parents of learning to identifying their caregivers (Kinsella et…

This particular article focused its experiment on the violation-of -expectation paradigm, which in this case meant that the infant would help the experimenter find an object that she noticed was hidden in a place she thought the experimenter knew about or did not know about. In the introduction of the article, it stated that it is classically believed that children start to understand false beliefs at ages four to five years old, but the experiment shows that infants as old as 18 months have a…

This article talks about attachment theory and how it can be culturally different. Attachment theory is an emotional bond (can be long term or short term) that connects one person to another. For example, children seek for attachment when they need protection or love. In this article, the author wants to show how families that comes from another culture, tradition and country develop and achieve appropriate attachment sensitivity based on social and cultural context. Also how does it affect a…

The results of the experiment were valuable in addressing the hypothesis under study. However, future investigations may need to adopt techniques that improve upon those used here. 5a. Now in figure 2. the time between steps 4 and 5 was 1 sec, that means the infants had 1 second to absorb information and answer. Now if we were to increase that time to 10 sec that would mean the infants would have a longer time to absorb information and answer which could lead to a different, more similar…