Unit #2 Attachment

Example of attachment: The child runs to their mothers but resists being comforted.  

• secure attachment

• anxious-ambivalent attachment

• anxious-ambivalent

• disorganized attachment

Example of attachment: The child appears to ignore the mother's return while backing up to get close to the mother.

• secure attachment

• anxious-ambivalent attachment

• anxious-avoidant attachment

• disorganized attachment

Example of attachment: The child runs to their mother and allows themself to be comforted.

• secure attachment

• anxious-ambivalent attachment

• anxious-avoidant attachment

• disorganized attachment

Example of attachment: the child is more likely to have poor social and behavioural outcomes.

• secure attachment

• anxious-ambivalent attachment

• anxious-avoidant attachment

• disorganized attachment

True or False children may have many adults close to them during infancy and the toddler years, resulting in attachment to different adults?

• True

• False

Bowlby described infants having various mental systems for understanding the world. The attachment system drives the child to stay close to an adult who gives the child a sense of ______ & _____.

• safety & love

• love & security

• safety & security

• connection & love

Infant's use the ________, as a secure base for which to explore. As infants play and explore, they carefully stay close enough to see their important adult.

• attachment systems

• relationship systems

• relationship types

• attachment relationship

Attachment is not about love as much as how infants feel _______, _______, _______ with specific adults.

• safe, understood and cared for

• safe, accepted and cared for

• accepted, understood and cared for

• accepted, respected and cared for

When the adult and child share joy, hormones such as oxytocin are released into the child's ______ system.

• nervous

• limbic

• respiratory

• immune

Every moment of interaction creates a hormone bath and firing mirror neurons. All of this is building a network of connections in the brain. These connections build the child's basic understanding of relationship, called ________?

• the working model of neuronal connections

• the working mental model of relationships

• the working mental model of attachment

• the working model of attachment types