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Attachment & Trust
and how it occurs
Attachment Behaviors and Obstacles
Learning to cope with feeling of loss
Varying Attachment Patterns and
Judging it in a Cross - Culture Situation
Child Care and Attachment
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What is the basis of healthy care and education?
social-emotional development. pg 27
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Provide two cultural rituals that are related to attachment in parents.
Giving a name to the baby and calling him or her by that name is a way of acknowledging the child as an individual & buying possessions for the new baby is a way of recognizing individuality and personhood. Pg 32
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What is the other side of Attachment?
Separation Pg 36
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Who was the first to apply to humans the idea that attachment behaviors evolved because they promote survival?
John Bowlby pg 39
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What is the keyword when looking at early deprivation and attachment problems?
Prevention. Pg. 44
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Name the task Erik Erickson would give to the Infancy stage.
Basic trust vs. Basic Mistrust p. 29
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What are three to four examples that show an emotional bond between a child and someone else?
Clinging, crying, fussing, whining, and following. Pg 33
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When do the skills for dealing with separation begin?
They begin to develop in infancy. Pg 36
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Mary Ainsworth was a student of John Bowlby. She came up with different types of attachment name all four types.
Securely attached, Avoidant attachment, resistant attachment and Disorganized/disoriented attachment. Pg 39 – 40
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What is one important aspect of quality care?
The partnership between the parents and the program. Pg 44
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If an infant gives signals and no one responds to them they see themselves as what?
Powerless and the world as cold and hostile and once they grow out of infancy, they continue to view the world with mistrust. Pg 29
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Provide three to four examples that can be parents may not feel and emotional connection to their baby before or after it is born.
Parents may be unhappy about the pregnancy or with each other, father may not be present, for the mother the reality of a baby may be fuzzy (it’s hard to love someone you can’t see, touch or interact with, unpleasant birth, complicated birth, mother may experience any kind of physical distress, Adoption, infant is very sick, or Temperament: both negative & positive Pg. 33 - 34
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What do experts see as a particular way of self-comforting that shows a child has coping skills?
When a child attaches to a favorite blanket or stuffed animal. Pg 37
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Name two criticism of Ainsworth’s way of judging attachment.
Unnatural setting and that it is based on a particular model of mother-child attachment. Pg 40
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What is the one vital quality of a good infant-care teacher?
Sensitivity Pg 44
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Emmy Werner, a developmental psychologist, did classic research on resiliency and she talks about a protective factor? What is a protective factor?
Attachment in early years with a caregiver who had predominantly positive interactions with the child acts as a protective factor and they can make a difference in children’s lives. Pg 30
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Thomas, Chess, and Birch, the pioneers in temperament categorized babies as “easy,” “slow to warm,” and “difficult.” Ronald Lally and his colleagues later changed these categories to what?
The three F’s - Fearful, Flexible, and Feisty pg 35
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What is one common experience infants share in regards to separation?
Sleeping alone in their cribs. p.37
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If you don’t thoroughly understand the culture and perhaps even the individual family, you can’t make judgments about what?
The way they are raising their children and whether they have a healthy attachment. Pg 42
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Name 3 ways caregivers differ from parents.
Provide short-term attachment; Optimum distance (degree of closeness); Fairness p.45
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According to Ron Lally three important factors make a big difference in whether a relationship grows between adults and the infants in their care? What are the three factors?
Group size, primary care, and continuity of care. Pg 31
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Give two examples of developmental differences that may impact attachment.
Neurological issues can cause babies not to be cuddly, babies may cry out in pain when held of touched, some babies can’t control their facial muscles may not smile or look interested, some babies don’t make eye contact, a child may not respond to soft talking if they are hearing impaired.
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What is a healthy sign that infants are able to handle separation?
Learning to put oneself to sleep and stay by oneself. Pg 38
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How does Stack describe a kinship networks?
Clusters of people who are related through children, marriage, and friendship who come together to provide domestic functions. Pg 40
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What is the goal of the parental attachment and the infant care teacher?
Establish optimum closeness with the child. Pg 45 Optimum distance Pg 45