Attachment

Attachment

1. Role of the father

   • the father is important in the child's development. Grossman (2002) carries out a longitudinal study looking at both parents' behaviour an dits relationship to the quality of children's attachments into their teens.

2. Animal studies

   • Harlow
   • Lorenz

3. Stages of attachment

   • Schaffer and Emerson (1964)
   • Stages
     • Stage one: Asocial stage, the baby is recognising and forming bonds with its carer.

4. Caregiver-infant interactions

   • Reciprocity
     • this ia description of how two people interact. where both mother and infant respond to each others signals.
   • Interactional Snchrony
     • mother and infant reflect both the actions and emotions of the other and do this in a co-ordinated way.

5. Explanations of attachment

   • Learning Theory
     • Classic conditioning
     • Operant Conditioning
   • Bowlbys monotropic theory

6. Ainsworth's Strange Situation

7. Cultural variations in attachment

   • Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg (1988)

8. Bowlby's Theory of Maternal Deprivation

9. Romanian Orphan Studies: effect of institutionalisation

10. Influence of early attachment on later relationships