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| an intimate and enduring relationship between 2 people characterized by reciprocal affection and a periodic desire to maintain physical closement. |
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| Why do attachments develop? |
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| They develop from the activation of a biologically based motivational system that is an inherited adaptation of human evolution. |
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| what can disruptions of attachment cause? |
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| short term or long term distress, grief, and mourning and long term vulnarability to psychiatric disorders and/or developmental disabilities |
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| what is attachment behavior? |
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Behaviour that promotes proximity to or contact with a specific figure to which you are attached.
EX: cooing, babbling, non-nutritional sucking |
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| Name the steps involved in attachment formation |
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1. Indiscriminate Socialbility/Preattachment (visual fixation, cooing)
2. Attachments in the making (infant is more selectively attached to 1/2 people)
3. Specific, clear cut attachments (show distress when separated; yet locomotion carrything them away from caregivers to explore the world; develop affection for a transitional object.)
4. Goal-Coordinated Partnerships (more complex relationship btw kid/caregiver; kid develops more autononmy and better relationshipss with others) |
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| Describe the various partterns of attachment formation. |
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1. Secure attachment (kid separates readily, explores environment; happiness upon return is genuine)
2. axious-avoidant attachment (no preference for caregiver over stranger. passive aggressive)
3.axious resistant attachment (trouble exploring, wary of stranger, trouble being soothed post reunion
4. disorganized, disoriented attachment (no eye contact, no interaction with caregiver OR stranger) |
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| What are the consequences of the different attachment patterens> |
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secure attachment--cooperation, complinance.
2. anxious/avoidant: avoid parental interaction and assitnace--antisocial behavior.
3. anxious-resistant--anger and resistance--frusterated, passive, helpless
4. disorganized, disoriented attachment--psychopathology |
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| what factors effect the neurobiology of attachment? |
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| smell, (id mother, sucklying, mother recognizing baby (releasing Norepi and maternal hormone pitocin), and physical separation induced physical disturbances: increased heart rate... |
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| what is reactive attachment disorder? |
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difficulty forming long lasting, intimate disorder;
charactericially absent of the abilit yto be affectionate towards others. |
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