Master Attachment Styles, Vygotsky and Bronfenbrenner in 46 Flashcards

The title of Flip It deck NG6642, Attachment & Social-Emotional Development, undersells it. Attachment is only the first quarter: the remaining cards pull in Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, Bronfenbrenner's nested systems, the nativism-empiricism split, and two competing accounts of how children acquire language. Treat it as a compact developmental psychology survey in 46 cards, and it becomes one of the most exam-ready decks in the category.

Ten cards from the deck

What the 46 cards cover

• Attachment — Bowlby's theory, Ainsworth's Strange Situation and the secure base, the four styles (secure, anxious-avoidant, anxious-resistant, disorganized), Harlow's cloth-versus-wire surrogates, and the consequences of caregiver deprivation: short-term separation, rage, despair and a brief lag in cerebral growth; long-term aggression, clinging, alienation, psychosomatic illness and elevated adult depression risk.
• Vygotsky — zone of proximal development, scaffolding, development running from the social level to the individual level, culture as the driver of the child's pattern of development.
• Nature and nurture — nativism, empiricism, critical periods, temperament, and the modern holistic position ("strong interactions of both"); applied to language as Chomsky's universal grammar versus statistical learning from input.
• Bronfenbrenner — microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem, bi-directional influences, and the 1979 publication The Ecology of Human Development.
• Social and adolescent development — theory of mind, adolescence, puberty, identity formation, peer pressure, plus single cards on Erikson's eight psychosocial phases, G. Stanley Hall, and the id's pleasure principle.

Two fixes that make the deck sharper

1. Bronfenbrenner has five systems, not four. Two cards state "four types of nested environmental systems," then a later card teaches the chronosystem as a sixth concept. Edit those backs to five and review them as a distance ladder: microsystem (the child's own home and classroom), mesosystem (two microsystems interacting), exosystem (settings the child never enters), macrosystem (culture, socioeconomic status, customs), chronosystem (time and life transitions). The exosystem card's overtime-father example is the one to keep in mind — it is the system students most often miss on an exam.

2. Six pairs are near-duplicates. Attachment theory and Bowlby, Ainsworth and the Strange Situation, Harlow's monkeys, nativism, empiricism and the four ecological systems each appear twice, in a term-first and a question-first version. That is a quarter of the deck answering the same six prompts. Keep the question-first wording, which matches how these are examined, and delete the rest so your streak reflects real recall. While you are in there, move the orphan pleasure-principle card into the Freud deck where it belongs.

Study tip specific to attachment: the deck defines three of the four styles by reunion behaviour, not separation. Rehearse them that way — indifferent on reunion means avoidant, angry on reunion means resistant, no consistent pattern means disorganized.

Where to find it

Log in at flip-it.app and search the library for code NG6642. Pair it with Memorize the Development Theories of Piaget, Freud, Erikson and Kohlberg in 55 Flashcards — that deck supplies the stage models this one assumes you already know.