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 * Attachment theory is about the love that grows between a baby and it's caretakers. As the baby grows older and is exposed to new people, this theory can also explain how love changes the way the baby acts. Attachment theory examines how teenagers and adults may treat each other as well.


 * Let's suppose that in this instance, the mother and father are the primary caretakers of the baby. If the mother or the father immediately attend to the baby with tenderness due to the reaction of crying, the baby learns that the parents can take care of him/her. If the mother or the father smile, talk, sing, and hold the baby when it is not crying, the baby learns that the parents love it. When the baby learns that it will receive affection during hard times, it usually grows up to be a person who expects other people to be nice. When a child feels loved, that child is said to be securely attached.


 * Both John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth are important figures in regard to the development of the attachment theory.


 * According to John Bowlby, "the care and love a baby gets from its parents cause it to form an important idea". [1] He called this idea the internal working model. The internal working model is how the baby or child thinks about itself, its parents, and other people. When parents have taken loving care of a baby and child, it grows up with a positive internal working model. It will think that the parents are good, because they were caring. And the child will not be afraid to try to make friends with new people, because it will expect people to be nice. Children who have a positive internal working model are also likely to be kind to other people. Bowlby believed that a positive internal working model would help people make friends.


 * Bowlby wrote, "the attachment process in people was like the closeness that exists between mother and baby gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys". [1] In humans, Bowlby believed that attachment developed gradually in four steps.


 * Mary Ainsworth saw how mothers treated their babies in different cities and countries. She realized how the many ways mothers and babies acted were the same, even when families' lives were very different. [2] Ainsworth made a way to test how the attachment relationship between a mother and her young child. She called it "The Strange Situation."[3]

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Jump up ↑ Bowlby, J. (1982). Attachment and loss. Vol. 1: Attachment (2nd Ed.). New York: Basic Books (new printing, 1999, with a foreword by Allan N. Schore; originally published in 1969). Jump up ↑ Ainsworth, M., Blehar, M., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of Attachment. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Jump up ↑ Ainsworth, M. D. S., & Bell, S. M. (1970). Attachment, exploration, and separation: Illustrated by the behavior of one-year-olds in a strange situation. Child development, 49-67.