Attachment in Infants Jessica N. Summerlin Rasmussen College Attachment in Infants Ever wonder where to draw the line with the amount of attention you give an infant? Is there such thing as giving an infant too much attention? These are hard questions to answer and there is much debate on the topic; what is a good amount of attention to give an infant and how attention is related to attachment. The people that give attention and grow attached to an infant could be doing them
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This essay will describe and evaluate Bowlby’s theory of attachment and maternal deprivation hypothesis. The essay will describe the two theories‚ weighing up the strengths and the weaknesses. It will include supporting research by Shaffer and Emerson‚ Ainsworth and Harlow‚ along with criticisms by Rutter. John Bowlby (1907-1990) was a child psychiatrist. He was psychoanalytically and medically trained. In 1945‚ after returning from serving in the armed forces medical service‚ he secured a position
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Development: Attachment Attachment An emotional bond between two people. It is a two-way process that endures over time. It leads to certain behaviours such as clinging and proximity-seeking and serves the function of protecting the infant. Primary attachment figure The person who has formed the closest bond with a child‚ demonstrated by the intensity of the relationship. Usually the biological mother‚ but other people can fulfil the role. Learning theory A group
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are how attachment and early social relations influence one as they grow from infant into adulthood. Attachment formed during infancy can have a lasting impact on one’s life. It is a system of how humans regulate their distress and achieve security. During infancy the sensitive period they will perform proximity-seeking behavior such as follow‚ suck‚ and cling. Bowlby stated that interactions between caregivers and infants construct expectations about how relationships and attachments. This is
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development of attachment relationships between children and parents constitutes one of the most important aspects of human social and emotional development. For years‚ the predominant view of infant-caregiver attachment was that it was a “secondary drive” i.e. that any attachment formed was because of the infant associating the caregiver with providing for physical needs such as hunger. However‚ John Bowlby argued that attachment is an innate primary drive in the infant. This theory was reinforced
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Attachment and Divorce: FAMILY CONSEQUENCES Bowlby ’s‚ Ainsworth ’s‚ and Shaver ’s research created the understanding that infant styles create a disposition for later behavioral traits. More current research has questioned the significance of how the disruption of the attachment structure (such as in divorce) can affect children ’s behaviors throughout life. The research on this topic is contradictory and somewhat inconclusive‚ with research asserting that either attachment style or
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However‚ for the purpose of this paper‚ I will be focusing on the mother-infant relationship as an adaptive strategy primates developed‚ with emphasis on attachment theory. The root of the mother-infant relationship as well as a child’s development can be linked to John Bowlby’s theory of attachment. Bowlby‚ a British psychoanalyst‚ developed the theory after running a study in which he attempted to understand the intense distress experienced by infants who had been separated from their parents. Upon
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usually develops reactive attachment disorder before the age of five years and it may be evident during the first months of infancy. Such children show maladaptive behaviors frequently and avoid interacting with others. The children diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder possess characteristics such as rudeness with humans and animals‚ and intentional lying where the child is aware of the fact that the other individual knows the truth. The Implications of Reactive Attachment Disorder Through a number
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VERGE 3 Rooney 1 Autism and Infant Attachment: A Review of the Literature Anna Rooney Psychology 340 Professor Pederson November 28‚ 2005 VERGE 3 A Review of the Literature Rooney 2 Even when Stephen Bohay was just a few months old‚ his parents knew there was something odd about him. Instead of developing the normal one consonant/one vowel sounds characteristic of three to eight month infants‚ Stephen remained silent and‚ according to his mother‚ never cuddled‚ never wanted
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(maximally vs. moderately irritable) and infant attachment (secure vs. insecure). Researchers wanted to reveal whether the two were associated when infants took part in exploration and sociability with unfamiliar adults. Stupica et al. points out many factors that may contribute to an infant’s wariness in exploration and sociability. Some influences include‚ natural child development through stages‚ which was founded by Jean Piaget‚ parental attachment introduced by John Bowlby and finally the differential-susceptibility
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