Key Words/phrases In Attachment

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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.