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🍼 Attachment – A-level
Psychology · A-level — practise Bowlby, Ainsworth's Strange Situation, animal studies, attachment types and deprivation.
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A caregiver and infant mirror each other's facial expressions and movements at the same time. What is this called?
Imprinting
Interactional synchrony
Monotropy
Reciprocity
20s
In Lorenz's study, what did the goslings that first saw Lorenz after hatching go on to do?
They followed Lorenz
They followed their natural mother
They followed whichever goose fed them
They showed no following behaviour
20s
According to Schaffer and Emerson (1964), at about what age do most infants form their first specific attachment?
About 7 months
About 6 weeks
About 18 months
About 3 months
20s
Bowlby described a mental template of the first attachment that shapes later relationships. What is it called?
Secure base
Internal working model
Monotropy
Social releaser
20s
In the learning theory explanation of attachment based on operant conditioning, the caregiver becomes a:
Secondary reinforcer
Unconditioned stimulus
Negative punisher
Primary reinforcer
30s
Harlow's monkeys clung to a cloth mother rather than a wire mother that gave milk. What does this suggest?
Attachment depends on how often a baby is fed
Monkeys attach to the first moving object
Attachment forms through association with food
Contact comfort matters more than food
30s
In the Strange Situation, an infant is very distressed when the mother leaves but resists comfort when she returns. Which type is this?
Secure (Type B)
Disorganised (Type D)
Insecure-resistant (Type C)
Insecure-avoidant (Type A)
30s
What did van IJzendoorn and Kroonenberg's (1988) meta-analysis find about variation in attachment types?
Secure attachment was rare outside the USA
Variation within cultures was greater than between
Insecure-avoidant was most common in every country
Variation between cultures was greater than within
30s
In Bowlby's 44 thieves study, how many of the 14 'affectionless psychopaths' had experienced prolonged early separation?
5
2
12
8
30s
In Rutter's ERA study of Romanian orphans, what was the key adoption age after which disinhibited attachment became common?
6 months
4 years
2 years
3 months
30s