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Experiencing the lifespan; Belsky; fourth
edition; Chapter 4 Exam Study Guide.
Attachment - answer✔The powerful bond of love between a caregiver and child.
Toddlerhood - answer✔The important transitional stage after baby-hood, from roughly 1 year
to 2 1/2 years of age; defined by an intense attachment to caregivers and by an urgent need to
become independent.
Primary attachment figure - answer✔The closest person in a child's or adult's life.
Proximity-seeking behavior - answer✔Acting to maintain physical contact or to be close to an
attachment figure.
Social Smile - answer✔The first real smile, occurring at about 2 months of age.
Attachment in the making - answer✔Second phase of Bowlby's attachment sequence, when,
from 4 to 7 months of age, babies slightly prefer to primary caregiver.
Clear-cut attachment - answer✔Critical human attachment phase,from 7 months through
toddlerhood, defined by separation anxiety, stranger anxiety, and needing a primary caregiver.
Separation anxiety - answer✔Signal of clear-cut attachment when a baby gets upset as a
primary caregiver departs.
Stranger anxiety - answer✔Beginning at about 7 months of age, when a baby grows wary of
people other than a primary caregiver.
Social referencing - answer✔A baby's checking back and monitoring a caregiver for cues as to
how to behave while exploring; linked to clear-cut attachment.
Working model - answer✔In Bowlby's theory, the mental representation of a caregiver
allowing children over age 3 to be physically apart from that primary attachment figure.
Stranger Situation - answer✔Mary Ainsworth's procedure to measure attachment at age 1,
involving planned separations and reunions with a caregiver.
Secure attachment - answer✔Ideal attachment response when a child responds with joy at being
united with a primary caregiver; or , in adulthood, the genuine intimacy that is ideal in love
relationships.
Experiencing the lifespan; Belsky; fourth
edition; Chapter 4 Exam Study Guide.
Attachment - answer✔The powerful bond of love between a caregiver and child.
Toddlerhood - answer✔The important transitional stage after baby-hood, from roughly 1 year
to 2 1/2 years of age; defined by an intense attachment to caregivers and by an urgent need to
become independent.
Primary attachment figure - answer✔The closest person in a child's or adult's life.
Proximity-seeking behavior - answer✔Acting to maintain physical contact or to be close to an
attachment figure.
Social Smile - answer✔The first real smile, occurring at about 2 months of age.
Attachment in the making - answer✔Second phase of Bowlby's attachment sequence, when,
from 4 to 7 months of age, babies slightly prefer to primary caregiver.
Clear-cut attachment - answer✔Critical human attachment phase,from 7 months through
toddlerhood, defined by separation anxiety, stranger anxiety, and needing a primary caregiver.
Separation anxiety - answer✔Signal of clear-cut attachment when a baby gets upset as a
primary caregiver departs.
Stranger anxiety - answer✔Beginning at about 7 months of age, when a baby grows wary of
people other than a primary caregiver.
Social referencing - answer✔A baby's checking back and monitoring a caregiver for cues as to
how to behave while exploring; linked to clear-cut attachment.
Working model - answer✔In Bowlby's theory, the mental representation of a caregiver
allowing children over age 3 to be physically apart from that primary attachment figure.
Stranger Situation - answer✔Mary Ainsworth's procedure to measure attachment at age 1,
involving planned separations and reunions with a caregiver.
Secure attachment - answer✔Ideal attachment response when a child responds with joy at being
united with a primary caregiver; or , in adulthood, the genuine intimacy that is ideal in love
relationships.
