Babies in the first 6weeks of life the baby recognises and starts to form a bond with its carers, those individuals find it easier to calm them. However, the baby's behaviour towards non-human objects and humans is quite similar
From 2-7 months babies display more observable social behaviour. They show a preference for people rather than inanimateobjects, and recognise and prefer familiar adults. At this stage babies usually accept cuddles and comfort from any adult, and they do not usually show separation or stranger anxiety. The attachment behaviour it is not different towards any one person
From 7 months to 9 months, the majority of babies start to display anxiety towards strangers and become anxious when separated from one particular adult (the biological mother in 65% of cases). This adult is termed the primary attachment figure, but this person is not necessarily the person the child spends most time with (the feeder), but the one who offers the most interaction and responds to the baby's 'signals' with the most skill
From 10 months, babies start to show attachment behaviour to other adults with whom they regularly spend time with. These relationships are called secondary attachments. In Schaffer and Emerson's study, 29% of the children had secondary attachments within a month of forming a primary attachment. By the age of 1 year the majority of infants had developed many attachments
Love experience and attitudes towards love (internal working model) were related to attachment type.
Secure Relationship Love Experiences - Relationships are positive, less likely to be divorced
Secure Adults View of Adult Relationships - Trust others and believe in
enduring love
Secure adults memories of mother-child relationship - Positive image of mother as dependable and caring
Avoidant adults love experiences - Fearful of closeness.
Avoidant adults views of adult relationships - Love is not durable nor necessary for happiness
avoidant adults memories of mother-child relationship - remember mothers as cold and rejecting
resistant adults love experiences - Preoccupied by love- it consumes you
resistant adults views of adult relationships - Fall in love easily but have trouble finding truelove
resistant adults memories of mother-child relationships - Conflicting memories of mother being positive and rejecting
Phobiasbehavioural symptoms
Avoidance
Panic
Phobiasemotional symptoms
fear and anxiety
Phobiascognitive symptoms
irrationalbeliefs/cognitivedistortions
selectiveattention
Depressionbehavioural symptoms
reduced energy + activity levels
disruption to sleep/eating behaviour
aggression or selfharm
Depressionemotional symptoms
low mood
anger
low selfesteem
Depressioncognitive symptoms
Irrational absolute thinking
Negativethoughts/attentionalbias
poor concentration
OCDbehavioural symptoms
Compulsions
Avoidance
OCDemotional symptoms
anxiety
embarrassment
OCDcognitive symptoms
obsessions
catastrophising
Failure to Function Criteria
self care
understanding + communication
mobility
participation in society
maintain relationships
no distress
Deviation from idealmentalhealth criteria
autonomy
integration
accurate perception of reality
mastery of environment
selfactualisation
no distress
high selfesteem
Compliance involves simply going along with others in public, but privately you do not change your personalopinions/ attitudes or actions. It results is a surface change in behaviour only when in the presence of the group.
Identification happens when you genuinely admire or respect the people within a group and so you conform/ imitate their beliefs and behaviours whilst with them. Here you see people change their behaviour publicly and their private beliefs, but only when in the presence of that group. This type is a mix of compliance and internalisation, but the resulting behaviours are shortlived, it doesn’t lead to a permanentchange.
When an individual is exposed to the views of a group, they are forced to examine their own beliefs. Internalisation happens when a person genuinely accepts the opinions/ actions of the group, which leads to public and private acceptance of the group’s beliefs. This means that a permanent change in opinions/ beliefs or actions will be seen.
SECURE attachment was the mostcommon in all 8 countries. Although there was a range from 75% in the UK to 50% in CHINA
AVOIDANT attachment was the next most common in all countries, averaging 21%. Except in GERMANY whose percentage was 35% - CONSIDERABLY HIGHER!
RESISTANT attachment was the least common style in all countries, averaging 14%. Except in Israel where it was 29% and in China25%- CONSIDERABLY HIGHER!
Those adopted at 6 months had an IQ of 102, compared to those adopted between 6 months and 2 years who had an IQ of 86 and it was 77 for those adopted after 2 years. These differences remained at age 15 when they were tested for the final time.