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Flashcards by eharveyhudl, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by eharveyhudl
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| Question | Answer |
| Attachment | An emotional bond between two people, it is a two-way process that endures over time |
| Primary attachment figure | The person who has formed the closest bond with the child, usually the mother |
| Learning theory | A group of explanations (classical and operant conditioning), which explain behaviour in terms of learning |
| Classical conditioning | Learning through association |
| Innate | Characteristics that are inborn |
| Imprinting | An innate readiness to develop a strong bond with a mother, takes place during sensitive period |
| Sensitive period | The time when development of all biological systems takes place, and it is critical time for children to form an attachment before they are two |
| Social releasers | A characteristic that elicits a care giving reaction |
| Secure base | When a child can explore and return to the care giver when frightened |
| Monotropy | Bias towards the primary attachment figure |
| Internal working model | Acts as a template for all future relationships because it generates expectations |
| Continuity hypothesis | Emotionally secure infants go on to be emotionally secure and confident adults |
| Secure attachment | A strong relationship which occurs because after the caregiver is sensitive to the infants needs. Secure attachment is related to healthy development. |
| Insecure-avoidant | Children who tend to avoid social interacting and intimacy with others |
| Insecure - resistant | Characterises children who seek and reject intimacy with others |
| Culture | Rules, morals and ways of interacting that bring members of a society together |
| Cultural variations | The way that different groups of people vary socially and the effects they have on our development and behaviour |
| Collectivist culture | Culture that places more value on the 'collective' rather than the individual |
| Individualist culture | Culture that places more value on the individual rather than the collective |
| Disinhibited attachment | Where children do not discriminate against people they choose as attachment figures, which can involve approaching strangers with familiarity |
| Institutional care | A place where people love for a period of time without going home at night |
| Privation | Failure to form an attachment |
| Day care | A form of care for infants offered by someone other than close family, and takes place outside the home |
| Aggression | An often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage to an individual |
| Peer relations | Ability to form relationships with other children |
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