Attachment - Evolutionary Theory
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- Attachment - Evolutionary Theory (Bowlby)
- Explanation
- Attachment is an innate drive
- Increases chances of survival - reproduction
- Babies born with social releasers to trigger attachment response in parents
- Big shiny eyes, smiling, crying
- Baby is parent's chance to pass on genes
- Sensitive Period
- Infants most sensitive to attachment between 6-9 months
- Inspired by Lorenz's investigation into imprinting
- Monotropy
- Babies formed many attachments but the primary and most strong attachment was to the mother
- Internal Working Model
- Infant creates template based on monotropic attachment
- This template determines their adult relationships
- Attachment is an innate drive
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Hazen + Shaver - Love Quiz
- Supports Internal Working Model
- Placed quiz in newspaper questioning relationship with parents when young and beliefs about romantic relationship now
- Insecure avoidant - feared intimacy and happy single
- Insecure resistant - Insecure and were obsessive
- Secure - happy, loving and trusting
- Explains why attachment is reciprocal
- Mother can pass on genes
- Hazen + Shaver - Love Quiz
- Weaknesses
- Based on retrospective data
- Can't be validated and could be biased
- Weakness of Internal Working Model
- Attitudes to relationships in adulthood may not be caused by type of attachment in infancy
- Temperament hypothesis
- Person might have an innate personality type which is easier to attach to
- Based on retrospective data
- Strengths
- Explanation
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