AQA ATTACHMENT Module (A-Level Psychology): Year 1 & AS… Just pick up a module and go...

AQA ATTACHMENT Module (A-Level Psychology): Year 1 & AS… Just pick up a module and go...
Part of the: The ‘pick-up a module and go’ series
AQA A-Level Psychology: Year 1 and AS
3) ATTACHMENT
Extensive PowerPoint© display (134 slides)

A photocopy friendly RESOURCES Book (48 pages, PDF format)

Teaching notes (5 pages) to help guide you through the slides

All you need to present this module in one package

Covers:

• Caregiver-infant interactions in humans: reciprocity and interactional synchrony. Stages of attachment identified by Schaffer. Multiple attachments and the role of the father.
• Animal studies of attachment: Lorenz and Harlow.
• Explanations of attachment: Learning Theory and Bowlby’s Monotrophic Theory. The concepts of a critical period and an internal working model.
• Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation’. Types of attachment: secure, insecure-avoidant and insecure resistant.
• Cultural variations in attachment, including van Ijzendoorn.
• Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation.
• Romanian orphan studies: effects of institutionalisation.
• The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships, including the role of an internal working model.

The author, Andy McCarthy is a Chartered Psychologist, experienced teacher, lecturer and publisher.