PSYC1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Attachment Theory, Autism Spectrum, Joint Attention
PSYCH1030
Lecture – Attachment
Dependency Theory:
• A baby loves his mother because she satisfies his physiological needs
• Person providing these needs becomes associated with drive reduction, pleasure,
comfort
• Freud –attached by oral satisfaction
• Critiis: Cupoard loe
• Lorezs Geese – Imprinting (not based on food), social bond (protection,
nourishment, support)
• Harlos Mokes – comfort preferred to food, more socially incompetence
Challenges to Dependency Theory:
• Orphan system – poor physical, psychological and intellectual outcomes
Attachment Theory:
• Bols – prewired with attachment behaviour
• Social and emotional bond
• Attachment behaviour
• Seek, achieve and maintain contact
• Felt security
Attachment Behaviour:
• Sucking – innate
• Looking – invitation to respond
• Smiling – attachment
• Crying – most effective for response
• Cuddling
• Felt and Attachment Security
Dependency theory vs Attachment Theory:
• Attachment – infant motivation, safety and security
Attachment Bonds:
• Do not necessarily develop in an optimal manner
• Ifats reatio to separatio
• Strange situations and home observations
Patterns of Attachment:
• Secure (active exploration, prefers parents to stranger, upset by separation, positive
reunion)
• Avoidant (independent, explores freely, little distress, avoidance at reunion
• Insecure-Aious (ofte at ope, little eploratio, protest ehaiours,
separation distress, anger/ambivalence at reunion)
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Document Summary
Challenges to dependency theory: orphan system poor physical, psychological and intellectual outcomes. Attachment theory: bo(cid:449)l(cid:271)(cid:455)(cid:859)s prewired with attachment behaviour, social and emotional bond, attachment behaviour, seek, achieve and maintain contact, felt security. Attachment behaviour: sucking innate, looking invitation to respond, smiling attachment, crying most effective for response, cuddling, felt and attachment security. Dependency theory vs attachment theory: attachment infant motivation, safety and security. Attachment bonds: do not necessarily develop in an optimal manner, strange situations and home observations. Patterns of attachment: secure (active exploration, prefers parents to stranger, upset by separation, positive reunion, avoidant (independent, explores freely, little distress, avoidance at reunion. Insecure-a(cid:374)(cid:454)ious (ofte(cid:374) (cid:858)(cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:272)ope(cid:859), little e(cid:454)ploratio(cid:374), protest (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours, separation distress, anger/ambivalence at reunion) Maternal characteristics: home observations, securely-attached mother more sensitive, spending time, quick response, avoidance mothers minimally expressive, uncomfortable to close contact, slow response, anxious inconsistent response, minimal spontaneous affection, usually universal.
