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27 Cards in this Set
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Attachment
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An emotional bond between two people. It's a two way process that endures overtime.
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Innate
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An inborn characteristic.
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Continuity Hypothesis
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The idea that emotionally secure infants go to be emotionally secure adults.
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Imprinting
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An innate response to create a strong bond with a mother figure during the sensitive period.
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Monotrophy
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The idea that the one relationship that the infant has with it's primary caregiver is of special significance to emotional development.
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Privation
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The lack of having any attachments due to failure to develop such attachment in early life.
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Secure Attachment
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This is a strong and contented attachment of an infant to his or her caregiver which is a result of sensitive responding by the caregiver to the infants needs.
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Insecure Attachment
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This is a form of attachment between infant and caregiver that develops as a result of the caregivers lack of sensitive responding to an infants needs.
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Insecure-Avoident
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Style of attachment characterises those children who tend to avoid social interaction and intimacy with others.
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Insecure-Resistant
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Attachment characterises those who both seek and reject intimacy and social interaction.
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Separation Anxiety
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This distress is shown by an infant when separated from his/her primary attachment figure.
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Stranger Anxiety
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The distress shown by an infant when approached or picked up by someone who is unfamiliar.
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Insecure-Disorganised
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The Emphasis in the description above is on consistency of attachment-related behaviour.
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Sensitive Period
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A period of time during which a child is particularly sensitive to a specific response or characteristic.
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Social Releasers
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A social behaviour or characteristic that elicits a care giving reaction.
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Primary Attachment Figure
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The person who has formed the closest bond with a child, demonstrated by the intensity of the relationship.
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Learning Theory
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The name given to a group of explanations such as classical and operant conditioning which explains behaviour in terms of learning rather then in born tendencies.
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Internal Working Model
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A mental model of the world what enables individuals to predict and control their enviroment.
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Temperament Hypothesis
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The belief that children form secure attachments simply because they have a more easy temperment from birth. Whereas innately difficult children are more likely to form insecure attachments.
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Culture Variations
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The ways that different groups of people vary in terms of their social practices.
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Culture
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Refers to all the rules, customs, morals and ways of interating that bing together members of society of some other collection of people.
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Collectivist Culture
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Any culture that places more value on the collective rather then on the indivdual and on interdependence rather then independence.
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Indivdualist Culture
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The oppersite to Collectivist Culture.
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Disinhibited Attachment
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A type of disorganised attachment where children do not discriminate between people they choose as attachment figures.
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Institutionalisation
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Describes the result of institutional care.
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Day Care
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This refers to a form of temporary care, not given by a family member or someone well known to the child.
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Social Development
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That aspect of a child's growth concerned with the development of sociability.
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