Attachment theories - Developmental psych unit 1

o theories of social and emotional development – attachment § study: emotion over physiological needs with Rhesus monkeys (Harlow, 1958) § theory of attachment – Bowlby (1969, 1988) · definition of attachment · evolutionary perspective · monotropy, critical and sensitive periods, maternal deprivation, internal working model o study: Strange situation to measure attachment (Ainsworth, 1978) § Type A – insecure avoidant attachment § Type B – secure attachment § Type C – insecure resistant attachment § Findings about cross cultural patterns of attachment according to van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg (1988) o impact of enriched and deprived environments on development § Case study – wild/feral child, such as Genie, the wild child