Developmental Psychology - Attachment

Developmental Psychology - Attachment

1. Explanations of Attachment

   • Learning Theory of Attachment
     • Classical Conditioning
       • Ivan Pavlov
       • Learning by Association
     • Operant Conditioning
       • B.F. Skinner
       • Learning through Reinforcement
   • Bowlby's Evolutionary Theory of Attachment
     • Survival Value
     • Monotropic Template
     • Critical Period

2. The Strange Situation

   • Ainsworth & Bell
   • Three Attachment Types
     • Securely Attached
     • Insecurely Attached - Avoidant
     • Insecurely Attached - Resistant

3. Cultural Variations in Attachment

   • Van Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg
     • Strange Situation
   • Takahashi
     • Japanese Infants
   • Tronik
     • African Tribe

4. Deprivation - Disruption of Attachment

   • "John"
     • Robertson & Robertson
     • Distress
       • Despair
       • Protest
       • Detachment
   • 44 Thieves Study
     • Bowlby

5. Privation - Failure to Form an Attachment

   • Hodges & Tizzard
     • 65 Children in Institutional Care
       • Adopted
       • Restored
   • Curtiss
     • "Genie"

6. Institutional Care

   • Rutter et. al
     • Romanian Orphans
       • Adopted by British Families
   • Day Care & Social Development
     • NICHD
       • Observations of behavioural issues in day-care
     • Shea
       • Assessment of social development in day-care attendees
   • Influence on Child Care Practice