Infants and caregivers (humans) are wired to keep proximity-usu b/c used to have danger in environment; as we mature our

internalized sense of trust and view of caregiver as safe haven gets stronger

If there is a mech that makes us want to be close to caregiver when infant, doesnt disappear when grow up until b/c parent, it is present all our lives for the above three reasons; one has to do w/mental model we form of caregiver as infant-this stays w us in our lives
For adult verbal interaction is imp b/c the infant models are formed bt/w age 0-2, when not talking

Feeling of security allows infant to move forward after threat and feel free to wander off from caregiver
Distal explanation is proximity helps survivial, proximal is you either feel secure or afraid

Slightly more anxious (.06) and less avoidant (.17) than last years class

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How do feelings change pre and post discussion about the problem; minor problem data doesnt count b/c dont activate attachment
Low anxiety people feel better, high anxiety people feel worse

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Emotion regulation is learned response to how caregivers treated us as infants

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The internal working model is unconscious, leads to automatic responses to attachment-relevant concerns

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High anxiety recog name faster, prob b/c thinking of attachment figure more often
High avoidance ppl are slower b/c are usu dampening down thoughts of attachment figure

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See how long it takes you to think of this example; secure remember pos mem faster than neg mem; avoidant and anxious are quicker in coming up w neg mem-so the trust-violating episodes are more accessible, so easier for them to think about it when they are interacting w someone, and it will affect their behavior more

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Secure people: faster to recog words about closeness than to recog words of security and control; so ideas about trust to them are more closely linked to words like close, warm-is because their experiences w trust have led to closeness in their relationships
Avoidant people: are equally fast on closeness and control-so think of trust w same amount of connection to closeness as well as control-b/c they want to control their own lives Anxious: slow on control, fast on security-so link trust with being secure and safe, always worrying about it

For all of these, quickest thought type is the one that will influence their behaviors the most because it is always on their mind

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Threat activates attachment system and changes behavior, how is this behavior maintained-sometimes ends up in pos feedback loop and repetition of behavior
The mental working models lead to you having the same experience repeatedly, which reinforces the mental model and continues the cycle Evidence for this: our choice of partners, biased recall, response to partner behavior

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How this reinforces mental model-recall relationships events diff from how they occurred
Low avoidance/secure remember more support, high avoidance remember less High anxiety dont see much change in blocking, low anxiety/secure remember that they blocked their partner more Secure people have memory bias that helps their relationship in the long run

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Rejection sensitivity-being hypersensitive to clues of rejection from your partner-anxious people do

Chronic accessibility bias-think of attachment in terms of lack of security Non-rejection sensitive person is less likely to see partners mood as criticism as them, is more likely to see that partner is upset and support them-would still confirm their internal model

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Partner is someone in relationship w a rejection sensitive, or not person

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Earned secure-their childhood would lead to them being insecure, but are secure, overcame their childhood
Secureinsecure-would come from v bad experiences in late teen, early& late adulthood could make someone insecure

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Plasticity of Affective Neurocircuitry-our neurons are not set at birth, and as infant our regulation of body processes is strongly linked to mother; as we mature, the connections get weaker, but the nature of strong connection has a lot to do w dev of deep structures in the brain that reg socioemotional behavior

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Both genetic predisposition and environment matter in dev your behavior; caregivers transmit their anxiety, has more effect when also have high genetic predisposition-wont be as anxious if only have one or the other

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