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Flashcards by wardle.t16, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by wardle.t16
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| what is an attachment? | a strong long lasting bond |
| what are the two measures of attachment? | stranger anxiety and separation protest |
| three attachment types? | secure, insecure ambivalent and insecure avoidant |
| What to remember for Bowlby's theory... | instinctive - to aid survival monotropy critical period - negative effects if no bond internal working model privation - moved foster homes / neglect deprivation - losing contact with parent irreversible effects - depression / aggression & affectionless psychopaths |
| criticisms of Bowlby | critical period is too narrow - just preferable effects of deprivation are not irreversible - czech twins evidence against idea of monotropy - grandparents |
| Behaviourist theory... | not instinctive - reinforcement (consequences) if consequence is positive = repeated infants smiling, gazing = caregivers attention, food rewarding for both (positive r) = repeated learn to attach neglect = nothing rewarding = avoided |
| application... | skin-to-skin midwives get babies to mothers asap opportunity to bond improve relationship benefit child in short term and makes template for future relationships |
| aim for hazen and shaver | correlation between early attachment types and adult relationships |
| procedure of hazen and shaver | love quiz in local newspaper two variables: early att type with checklist romantic relations in adulthood with multichoice 620 responses opportunity sample of ages 14-82 |
| results of hazen and shaver | infant att type = 56% secure, 25% insecure av, 19% insecure amb strikingly high correlation adults secure= happy, trusting, no divorce adults insecure av= afraid of intimacy, highs and lows, jealousy, alone adults insecure amb= obsession, sexual attraction, extreme jealousy, divorce |
| conclusion of hazen and shaver | clear correlation between type of attachment in infancy and types of intimate relationships in adulthood shows long term effects of attachment |
| criticisms of hazen and shaver | opportunity sample unrepresentative - only certain people returned it rely too much on respondents giving honest answers - recall infancy, lie or cover up used closed multichoice q's which may not have gone into enough depth - complicated, no explanation |
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