Attachment: Recap and Learning Theory

What stage is this?

Responds positively to mum, dad, granny and grandad.

• Asocial

• Indiscriminate

• Discriminate

• Multiple

Which research methods were used in Shaffer and Emerson's research? Choose 2.

• Longitudinal

• Meta-analysis

• Experiment

• Observation

In Shaffer and Emerson's study, which of the following best describes the participants?

• 60, 18-month old girls from Glasgow

• 60 middle-class fathers from Edingburgh

• 30 working class boys from Glasgow

• 60 working class children from Glasgow

'A close two-way emotional bond between two individuals, in which each individual sees the other as essential for their own emotional security.'

This is describing...?

• Reciprocity

• Interactional Synchrony

• Attachment

• Deprivation

Animal studies have had a theoretical value to research into attachment because:

• They demonstrate the quality of early relationships on future development

• They are extremely unethical

• Attachment is driven by comfort and security rather than food

• They have low ecological validity

Children learn to love whoever...

• Loves them

• Feeds them

• Bathes them

• Gives them attention

Drive reduction is the idea that:

• Mothers are primary caregivers

• Babies need to learn how to drive

• Hunger is secondary attachment

• Hunger is the primary and innate drive

Classical conditioning linked to attachment states that during pairing, the mother is:

• Unconditional stimulus

• Neutral stimulus

• Conditional stimulus

• Conditioned Response

Infants learn to be attached to their primary caregiver through:

• Operant Conditioning

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning + Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning + Classical Conditioning + Imprinting

Imprinting is: Attaching to the first person you come into contact with.

• True

• False