Attachment Theory

What theory is Bowlby known for?

• Attachment Theory - Having a strong connection to a primary caregiver is critical to personal development.

• System Theory - Structure and support must be provided in all Community Circles.

• Humanism - Using positive, unconditional regard can help an individual find their best self.

• Positive Psychology - Change experiences by having positive thoughts (gratitude journal).

What did Harry Harlow’s experiments with rhesus monkeys demonstrate?

• Feeding and nourishment do not create attachment; contact comfort is more important.
• Nourishment creates attachment.
• Feeding and contact comfort create
  attachments.
• Contact comfort is not important at all.

According to Ainsworth (1978), what are the categories of infant attachment behaviour?

• insecure avoidant, securely attached and insecure resistant
• avoidance, insecurity and resistance
• avoidance behaviours and happy behaviours
• insecure resistant, insecurely detached and avoidant

Identify Mary Ainsworth’s strange situation:

• A strange situation is when someone wears all green clothing all the time and dyes their hair green.
• The strange situation is a method used to observe a child’s attachment to their caregiver.
• The strange situation was a method used to observe a child’s imprinting.
• A strange situation occurs when children are adopted from deprived environments.

According to Konrad Lorenz, imprinting is important because:

• it ensures that a young gosling will follow their parent
• people like to know what their parents look like
• to survive, babies need to look only at one adult
• young goslings learn how to feed and protect themselves without parental influence.

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How did Harlow's research change the way we interact with children?

• We pick up and soothe our children when they cry.
• We do not pick up children when they cry.

Which of the following psychologists developed the Strange Situation to identify various types of attachment between infants and mothers:

• Kohlberg
• Erikson
• Ainsworth
• Piaget

Choose which type of attachment is developed when a child is emotionally and physically independent from the caregiver and they do not seek out the caregiver when distressed:

• Secure
• Avoidant
• Resistant

Ainsworth placed her types of attachment into two distinct categories, what were these?

• Anxious and astute
• Secure and insecure
• Stable and shaky
• Tentative and trusting

An infant that is calmed quickly and easily on reunion is displaying signs of which type of attachment?

• Insecure-avoidant
• Insecure-disorganised
• Insecure-resistant
• Secure