PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Model, Attachment Theory, John Bowlby
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Examine attachment in childhood and its role in the subsequent formation of relationships. Attachment: long lasting, strong, and close emotional bond between two people. The actual bond of attachment can be observed from the age of seven months. By that age infants become attached to speci c people, and show distress when separated. Attachment theory: used to understand the social and emotional development of children, as well as adult relationships. Ainsworth et al. (1978)- this study was able to develop the three theories of attachment. The presence or lack of attachment is the subject of work of ainsworth et al. Researchers are testing how far a small child has been making an attachment by use of the. In this laboratory observation study the mother and child were in an unfamiliar room and subjected to strange situations of a range of timed and increasingly stressful (for an attached child) set of scenarios such as: