The attachment working models concept: Among other things, we build script-like representations of secure base experiences

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 185-197

  Waters, Harriet S ^a   Waters, Everett ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Script; Working models

Indexed keywords

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 33748108200     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: 14692988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730600856016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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