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Exam #1 Study Guide
1. Define the word attachment.
Attachment is a lasting relationship that begins to develop during infancy and serves to tie the infant to one or more people in his or her life.
It is a two way process- adults (usually parents, family members, or primary care givers) attach to infants, and infants to adults.
Attachment is a life long process that starts in the first year of life and carries throughout the life span. The first early attachment sets the tone for a child’s development and defines some issues that he or she will carry into adulthood.
Trust develops during the first year of life. After trust occurs, attachment is formed.
An infant has 4 trusts: -caregiver -peers -environment -themselves
According to Erikson, how does attachment occur?
The early issue of developing trust vs. mistrust was originally defined and described by Erik Erikson (1963), who sees life as a series of psychosocial dilemmas to be resolved. Attachment is vital, a means of ensuring survival of the child. It ensures that nurturing and protection will be provided to the relatively helpless infant, who first views world as a friendly place. If the infant finds that when needs arise they are met with reasonable promptness. A sense of trust grows from fulfillment and satisfaction in the first year of life. Infants left screaming for long periods of time, gripped in agony of hunger pangs, begin to view the world is an unfriendly place. They cannot trust anyone to take care of them. If they are giving signals that no one responds to, when children grow out of infancy, they continue to distrust the world.
Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development

Describe two signs of attachment.
Parent attachment can be seen when parent won’t let anyone else hold baby or child’s needs are put before their own needs.
Child to parent attachment signs- baby sad when you go or get happy when you come back. Changing diapers...