JOHN BOWLBY
The term given to the person an infant first attaches to, usually their mother.
What is primary caregiver?
Ainsworth’s Strange Situation experiment was conducted to observe this.
What is to observe attachment security in children within their relationship with their caregiver?
Name the 3 general attachment styles.
What is secure, resistant and avoidant?
Results of the Still Face Experiment indicate this.
What is the power of emotion coaching and the importance of emotional connection between caregivers and children?
Bowlby’s idea that a child has an innate need to attach to one primary caregiver.
What is monotropy?
In the Strange Situation experiment, the initial absence is referred to as this.
This type of reaction to the Separation Anxiety sequence in Strange Situation indicates an avoidant relationship.
What is the infant being okay with the stranger and plays normally when the stranger is present?
True or false: in the Still Face Experiment, psychologists test how long a baby can keep a still face while their caregiver makes silly faces at them.
Bowlby stated that short-term separation is caused by this type of anxiety.
What is distress?
The Strange Situation experiment contains ___ many sequences, which last for ___.
What is 8 sequences, approximately 3 minutes each?
This percentage of infants have a “resistant” attachment style.
What is 15%?
Name one element of emotion coaching.
What is...
1. Be aware of your child’s emotions
2. Recognize your child’s expression of emotion as an opportunity for intimacy and teaching
3. Listen with empathy and validate your child’s feelings
4. Help your child learn to label their emotions with words
5. Set limits when you are helping your child to solve problems or deal with upsetting situations appropriately
According to Bowlby, crying, laughing, and movement are all examples of these behaviors.
What are signaling behaviors?
This type of reaction to the Stranger Anxiety element of Strange Situation indicated a secure attachment.
What is being avoidant of stranger when alone, but friendly when the mother is present?
The infant showing little interest when the mother returns in the reunion phase of Strange Situation indicates this attachment style.
What is avoidant?
Describe the stage of “Specific or Discriminate Attachment” in Bowlby’s stages of attachment.
What is the infant displaying stranger anxiety and separation anxiety from their primary caregiver?
Give 3 out of 5 examples of the permanent and irreversible impacts deprivation can have on an infant.
What is...
“Distress?” Is a question asked during this stage of the Strange Situation.
What is the departure of the caregiver?
In Strange Situation, the mother and stranger being able to equally comfort the infant indicates this type of attachment.
What is avoidant?
Bowlby’s 3 progressive stages of distress.
What is...
1. Protest
2. Despair
3. Detachment ?