Attachment &
Parenting
Exam Revision
,Week 1: intro
01
Week 2: lifespan
02
Week 3: cross culture
03
Week 4: neurophysiology
04
Exam Revision Outline
Week 4: temperament & attachment
05
Week 5: oxytocin
06
,Recap weeks 1, 2, 3
Week 1 → Bowlby, History, Evolutionary, Monotropy/attachment hierarchy, Role of
context/emotions/cognition, behavioural system & relations, measures of infant attachment
Week 2 → IWMs, unimodal/multimodal processes involved predicting, prefrontal cortex & planning,
mental simulation + benefits, middle childhood (nature, consequences, measures), adult attachment
(nature, individual differences, measures), intergenerational transmission of attachment, continuity: tree
Week 3 → Etic vs. emic approach, WEIRD sample, Biro: importance of culture, 4 examples (toilet training
digo, temperament masai, harsh parenting/sensitive parenting, normality/universality: dogon), Testing 4
hypotheses (van ijzendoorn, 1990), AFRICA, ASIA (INDONESIA), LATIN AMERICA, KIBBUTZ ISRAEL,
conclusion, Amae & attachment (orthogonal concepts), Sapporo Japan
, Week 1: Intro