Chapter 10
●Attachment: positive emotional bond that develops between a child and a particular
individual
●Imprinting: behavior that takes place during a critical period and involves attachment to
the first moving object that is observed
●Cloth comfort: choosing a cloth monkey over a wire monkey
●Ainsworth Strange Situation: a sequence of staged episodes that illustrate the strength
of attachment between a child and their mother
○Securely attached, avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized-disoriented
●Secure attachment pattern: style of attachment in which children use the mother as a
kind of home base and are at ease when she is present; when she leaves, they
becomes upset and go to her as soon as she returns
●Avoidant attachment pattern: a style of attachment in which children do not seek
proximity to the mother; after the moth has left, they seem to avoid her when she returns
as if they are angered
●Ambivalent attachment pattern: a style of attachment in which children display a
combination of positive and negative reactions to their mother; they show great distress
when the mother leaves but upon her return they may simultaneously seek close contact
but also hit and kick her
●disorganized -disoriented attachment pattern: style of attachment in which children show
inconsistent, often contradictory behavior, such as papraching the mother when she
returns, but not looking at her; they may be the least securely attached children of all
○Reactive attachment disorder: psychological problem characterized by extreme
problems in forming attachments to others
●Mutual regulation model: model in which infants and parents learn to communicate
emotional states to one another and respond appropriately
●Reciprocal socialization: a process in which infants behaviors invite further responses
from parents and other caregivers, which in turn bring about further responses from the
infants
●Mirror neurons: neurons that fire not only when an individual enacts a particular
behavior, but when the individual simply observes another organism carrying out the
same behavior
●Nonverbal encoding: nonverbal expression of emotion
●Maximally discriminative facial movement coding system (MAX): discovered by Izard,
find that interest, distress, and disgust are present at birth, and other emotions emerge
over the next few months
○Infants display similar kinds of emotions, the degree of emotional expressivity
varies among infants
○Express emotions in a reliable manner mean that they actually experience the
emotion
■Express → experience
●Stranger anxiety: the caution and wariness displayed by infants when encountering an
unfamiliar person
Attachment is the positive emotional bond that develops between a child and a particular individual. Attachment is an emotional bond with another person that is usually powerful and long-lasting. Used especially about the relationship between infant and mother. - The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an/ passion of affection
that binds a person; as, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.Webster Dictionary Meaning
- That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
- Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).
- A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.
- The writ or percept commanding
such seizure or taking.
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