Critically evaluate the claim that failure to establish a secure attachment during the first few months of life will result in later emotional difficulties.
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- Created on: 12-01-17 10:39
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- Attachment affects our future
- No
- Later development not determined by attachment as resilience or support could be factors
- Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (MLSRA, 1976)
- 2 groups of children showed consistent, problematic behaviour between age 3 and 5
- One group had early supportive care and had fewer behaviour problems by age 8
- 2 groups of children showed consistent, problematic behaviour between age 3 and 5
- Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (MLSRA, 1976)
- Waltham Forest Study (1982)
- Problem behaviour in 25% of 3 year olds
- 65% of those were still difficult at age 8, others had joined
- Insecurely attached children can improve and securely attached children can worsen
- 65% of those were still difficult at age 8, others had joined
- Risk factors
- Negative parental attitudes, low status background, poor marital relations and high depression in mothers
- Not all determined by the attachment figure
- Negative parental attitudes, low status background, poor marital relations and high depression in mothers
- Problem behaviour in 25% of 3 year olds
- Later development not determined by attachment as resilience or support could be factors
- Yes
- Bowlby
- First 3 years critical period for maternal contact (changed to sensitive)
- Change is possible but constrained by developmental pathways
- Patterns of relationships transfer to adult life
- His studies done in institutions with lack of stimulation and inconsistent carers
- First 3 years critical period for maternal contact (changed to sensitive)
- Ainsworth
- Strange situation test - child with mother, child with stranger, child alone and reunited with mother and stranger
- Four attachment types (secure, insecure anxious/avoidant, insecure anxious/resistant, insecure disorganised
- Erikson et al. (1985) - insecurely attached infants struggled to adjust socially and tended to be hostile and withdrawn
- Lab setting - how similar is this to what the infants would come into contact with
- Harlow's monkeys
- Extensive studies on monkeys' attachment
- Baby monkeys were taken away from their mothers and often kept in isolation
- Most monkeys became emotionally disturbed and couldn't socialise
- Some even abused or neglected their own children
- Most monkeys became emotionally disturbed and couldn't socialise
- Baby monkeys were taken away from their mothers and often kept in isolation
- Extensive studies on monkeys' attachment
- Bowlby
- No
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