ATTACHMENT

• With reference to interactional synchrony and reciprocity discuss caregiver infant interactions

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• Outline and evaluate the role of the father in attachment

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• Outline and evaluate animal studies of attachment

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• Outline and evaluate Bowlby's explanation of attachment


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• Outline and evaluate learning theory as an explanation of attachment

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• Discuss the strange situation as a way of assessing types of attachment

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• Outline and evaluate research into cultural variations of attachment

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• Psychologists have studied children who have lived in an institutions such as orphanages. Outline and evaluate research into the effects of institutionalisation (A01)

  • Institutionalisation refers to the effects of living in an institutional setting for long continuous periods with little emotional care
  • Rutter's orphan study (English and Romanian adoptee study), 165 romanian orphans adopted in Britain to test what extent good care could repair poor childhood experiences
  • There was a control group of 52 British children adopted around a similar time
• Discuss Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation

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• Outline and evaluate research into the influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships

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