PSYC 2P12 Lecture 7: PSYC 2P12- Jan 24.docx

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2P12
• Professor: Cathy Mondloch

Document Summary

Bowlby & ainsworth: parents job is to become a secure base: somebody they can count on, you can go off an explore, comfort is important in attachment, volunteer work: most of which he found out his work with children; 2 children who got him thinking about attachment; adolescent who showed no affection to people and spent all his time alone, he never had a mother figure; the other child was very anxious and followed bowlby everywhere; worked with children between age 1 4 who had a prolonged separation from their parents (early separation tb sanatorium); we need to stop looking a repressed memories and start looking at real life events; proposed that children who experience separation from parents they go through different stages, distress: child cry, fuss and cling on, despair: push away in anger, detachment: affectionless and alone, the purpose is to maintain proximity to the parent through: sucking, crying, following, clinging and smiling.