PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Attachment Theory, Attachment In Adults, Thermostat

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Andrea Friedrich

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~ chapter nine: attachment through the life course ~ Introduction: why do close relationships play such a profound role in human experience, attachment theory is one approach to understanding the nature of close relationships. Someone who functions as the primary safe haven and secure base for an individual. In childhood, an figure is often a parent. Designed by natural selection to regulate proximity to an attachment figure: attachment behavioral system: a motivational system selected over the course of evolution to maintain proximity between a young child and his or her primary attachment figure. Individual differences in how securely (vs. insecurely) people think, feel, and behave in attachment relationships: she demonstrated that these individual differences were correlated with infant-parent interactions in the home during the first year of life. Insecure-avoidant children are more likely to be construed as bullies or to have a difficult time building and maintaining friendships.