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Attachment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Internal Working Model | Mental representation of monotropy attachment. Affects future relationships |
| Childhood relationships | Affiliations with other people in childhood. Friends + classmates |
| Adult relationships | Friends and work relationships. Most importantly romantic relationship + relationships with own children |
| Securely attached infants form the best quality childhood friendships | Quality of attachment with peers - Kerns (1994) |
| Assessed attachment type and bullying involvement by questioning 196 7 - 11 year olds from London | Myron-Wilson + Smith (1998) |
| Analysed 620 replies to a 'love quiz' which identified 56% as securely attached and 19% as insecure-resistant attached | Hazan + Shaver's Love Quiz |
| Considered the attachment of 99 mothers to their babies and own mothers | Bailey et al (2007) |
| Observed 60 Glaswegian babies in their own homes to investigate the formation of early attachments | Schaffer + Emerson (1964) |
| Stages of attachment - baby is recognising + forming bonds | Asocial stage |
| Stages of attachment - baby displays more preference for people rather than objects | Indiscriminate attachment |
| Stages of attachment - majority start to display stranger + separation anxiety | Specific attachment |
| Stages of attachment - after forming specific attachment baby starts forming secondary attachments | Multiple attachment |
| Investigated mechanisms used by rhesus monkeys to bond with their mothers | Harlow's Monkeys |
| Learning theory uses these to explain attachment | Classical + Operant Conditioning |
| Attachments must form within a critical period | Bowlby's Monotropic Theory |
| The more constant + predictable a child's care, the better quality of their attachment | The Law of Continuity |
| The effects of every separation from the Primary Caregiver add up + safest dose is zero | The Law of Accumulated Separation |
| Hatched 3 goose eggs in incubator + raised them himself | Konrad Lorenz |
| A controlled situation set up to test attachment security | Ainsworth's Strange Situation |
| Episode of Strange Situation - child is encouraged to explore | Tests exploration + secure base |
| Episode of Strange Situation - Stranger comes in + tries to interact with baby | Tests stranger anxiety |
| Episode of Strange Situation - caregivers leaves child + stranger alone | Tests separation + stranger anxiety |
| Episode of Strange Situation - caregiver returns + stranger leaves | Tests reunion behaviour + exploration/secure base |
| Episode of Strange Situation - caregiver leaves child alone | Tests separation anxiety |
| Episode of Strange Situation - stranger returns | Tests stranger anxiety |
| Episode of Strange Situation - caregiver returns + is reunited with child | Tests reunion behaviour |
| Type of attachment - child freely explores, doesn't show proximity/secure-base behaviour. Low separation anxiety. | A. Insecure-avoidant |
| Type of attachment - happy to explore but regularly returns to caregiver. Moderate separation distress + stranger anxiety | B. Secure |
| Type of attachment - child seeks greater proximity + explores less. Extreme stranger + separation anxiety | C. Insecure-resistant |