🔑 Key Definitions
Attachment: Deep emotional bond connecting one person to another across time and space 💕
Internal Working Models: Mental representations of self and others from early experiences 🧠
Strange Situation: Ainsworth's procedure for assessing infant attachment 🔬
Internal Working Models: Mental representations of self and others from early experiences 🧠
Strange Situation: Ainsworth's procedure for assessing infant attachment 🔬
👤 Important Figures
- John Bowlby - Attachment theory founder (1958, 1969) 📚
- Mary Ainsworth - Strange Situation, attachment styles 🔬
📊 4 Attachment Styles (Infants)
- Secure (~65%) - Uses caregiver as safe base 💚
- Anxious-Ambivalent (~10%) - Clingy, ambivalent at reunion 💛
- Avoidant (~20%) - Little distress, ignores caregiver 🧊
- Disorganized (~5%) - Confused, contradictory behaviors 💔
🧠 Internal Working Models
- Model of self: Am I worthy of love? 💗
- Model of others: Can others be trusted? 🤝
💡 Exam Tips
- Know % for each style: Secure 65%, Anxious 10%, Avoidant 20%, Disorganized 5% 📊
- Bowlby = THEORY; Ainsworth = STRANGE SITUATION + STYLES 🔬
- Internal Working Models = key concept 🧠