Developmental Psychology Early Social 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
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Building a secure emotional and social development base for children is linked to their early attachment experience with caregivers. This essay covers the spectrum of influential theories on the impact that sensitive mothering has on attachment quality along with analyzing attachment types. It will conclude with how responsive care‚ and secure attachment‚ will help developing a positive internal working model for later maturity in a child’s life. Infant’s early responses to preferred
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suggests that evolution has produced a behaviour that is essential to the survival to allow the passing on of genes. An infant that keeps close to their mother is more likely to survive. The traits that lead to that attachment will be naturally selected. Bowlby has the idea that attachment has evolved and it is innate as it increases the likelihood of survival and reproduction‚ he suggests that children are already born with this innate drive and that they were born to perform these behaviours and born to
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The Relationship Between Parental Attachments and Mental Disorders COUN 502: Human Growth and Development September 28‚ 2013 Abstract Emotional development is important for a child as it plays essential roles in the functioning and wiring of the brain within the first few years of life. The right emotional attachments formed by a parent or caregiver can influence how a child interacts with others as well as how the child copes with stress and adversity. The need for secure attachment in a
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‚ p.20) states that it is peers not parents that influence us more. Pioneering‚ sourced in multiple disciplines work of Bowlby (cited in Wood et al.‚ 2007‚ p.28-29) established that children have a primary attachment relationships with a caregiver who is their secure base and that they develop ‘internal working models’ of such relationship. A child needs a
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From several central concepts of initial life experiences‚ one can perceive valuable insights into comprehending the human psyche. Attachment begins in infancy and may last throughout a lifetime or it may change due to circumstances. Bowlby and Ainsworth‚ both supposed that the mother is the one that will shape the child’s personality and character‚ but what about the other bonds a person makes throughout their lifetime? A problem with the attachment model is that the list of attachment behaviors
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a two-way process that endures over time. An evolutionary perspective of attachment was researched by the famous John Bowlby in 1969. Bowlby observed both humans and mammals. Bowlby ’s theory is an evolutionary theory‚ he emphasised that attachment had evolved‚ which means it was not something that was taught‚ because of its survival and reproductive value. According to Bowlby‚ children have an innate (inborn characteristics which are genetically determined) drive to become attached to a caregiver
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suffer psychological damage as a result of separation. John Bowlby is widely credited as the father of attachment theory due to his extensive research into the concept of attachment. He revolutionized our thinking about a child’s bond to its mother and the emotional and social impact created as a result of separation‚ deprivation and bereavement describing his theory as "a lasting psychological connectedness between human beings" (Bowlby 1969) pg 194. Believing that early childhood experiences have
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No substance0 | Weak1 | Adequate1.5 | Well done2 | | 3. How is your child’s attachment to you and your partner developing? What is happening at the 3-month and 8-month periods that might affect attachment security according to Bowlby and Ainsworth‚ and various research studies? (2 marks) | | | No substance0 | Weak1 | Adequate1.5 | Well done2 | | At 9 Months
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to one another. But also we can have the distress of separation and joy and being reunited. As we form attachments throughout our lives there is a particular attachment between babies and their main primary carer According to psychologist Mary Ainsworth ‚ attachment "may be defined as an affectional tie that one person or animal forms between himself and another specific one – a tie that binds them together in space and endures over time." Attachment behaviour in adults towards a child includes
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