PSYC 362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Attachment Theory, John Bowlby, Hypervigilance
13 Dec 2018
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Serve attachment needs for sense of safety, security and comfort. Children differ in terms of how they meet their needs of safe haven and secure base - dependent on coordination of af caregiving and child attachment system. Not all relationships develop in an ideal manner. Mary d. salter ainsworth extended theory on individual differences. Concerned with whether children were attached, but also with how they were attached. As a way to assess individual differences in child attachment. Series of 7 separations and reunions with the caregiver (attachment figure, usually the mother) and introduction of a stranger. Behavior of child in environment while parent is present and absent. If parents are nearby, and babies are exploring the toys, manipulating the toys sense of secure. If babies are easily calmed by the stranger less attachment to caregiver (rare) Baby is not calmed by the reunion of the mother (relationship is insecure)
