PSY230H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Attachment Theory, Parenting Styles, Attachment In Adults
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Attachment theory: infants need their parents to survive so often look to them for help. Secure attachment: infants regard mother as somebody who can. Avoidant attachment: infant does not trust the mother to protect. Anxious attachment: child is overwhelmed by the stressful situation for infants attachment and love are closely linked. Strange situation test: children are left alone with stranger. After a (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) especially during times of need, stress or uncertainty. (cid:1) (cid:1) while the mother returns. (cid:1) (cid:1) and will protect it during times of need. Allows them to form better social relationships when they"re older (cid:1) (cid:1) at least partially shaped by the parents and is partly inherited. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) predictor of extraversion and openness (cid:1) influenced infants" attachment behaviours (cid:1) (cid:1) Personality (cid:1) opposite is true for insecurely attached children second fundamental assumption is that infants; attachment styles are.
