Attachment Bonds

Attachment

emotional tie with another person

Separation Anxiety

distress at separation from caregiver

Freud’s Cupboard Theory

relating to food; incorrect

Contact-Comforting Touch

Harry Harlow’s wire mother vs. cloth mother experiment

Familiarity

imprinting & stranger anxiety

Imprinting

* attachment bonds formed by animals based on familiarity
* not in humans

Konrad Lorenz

did imprinting research with ducks

Parental Responsiveness

Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Test + Ainsworth’s Attachment Styles

Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Test experiment

unfamiliar room, stranger comes into room, mom leaves then comes back later

Mary Ainswroth’s Strange Situation Test’s data collected

* Baby’s behavior before mom leaves
* Baby’s behavior when mom returns
* Observation of parental responsiveness at home

Ainsworth’s Attachment Styles

secure vs. insecure

Secure attachment

Distressed when parent leaves, relieved + comforted when they return

Insecure attachment

Not comforted when parent returns, angry or ignore parentd

Temperament

aspect of personality

Mary Ainsworth’s findings

* Securely attached children = sensitive + responsive parents
* Insecurely attached children = inconsisten parents

\*Correlation between two

Diana Baumrind

parenting styles

Authoritarian

high control, low warmth (obedience)

Authoritative

high control, high warmth

Permissive

high warmth, low control

Uninvolved

low warmth, low control