Bowlby
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- Bowlby
- Monotropic Theory
- Monotropy
- Emphasis on a child's attachment to one particular caregiver
- Typically the mother or the primary attachment figure
- The law of continuity - more constant and predictable the child's care, the better the quality of attachment
- Social releasers and the critical period
- Babies that are born with innate 'cute' behaviours like smiling and cooing in order to gain attention - called social releasers
- Critical period of 2 years, but viewed this as a sensitive period
- Internal Working Model
- Mental representation of their relationship with their primary caregiver
- Evaluation
- Mixed evidence for monotropy
- Unclear whether there is something unique about the first attachment
- Support for internal working models
- Testable because it predicts that patterns of attachment will be passed down through generations
- Bailey et al
- Testable because it predicts that patterns of attachment will be passed down through generations
- Mixed evidence for monotropy
- Monotropy
- Theory of Maternal Deprivation
- Separation v Deprivation
- Separation - child not being in the presence of the primary attachment figure
- Deprivation - they lose the element of care, causing harm
- Critical period - first 30 months
- Effects on development
- Intellectual development
- Abnormally low IQ - Goldfarb (1947)
- Emotional development
- Affectionless Psychopathy
- Intellectual development
- 44 Thieves Study
- 44 criminal teenagers accused of stealing
- Affectionless psychopaths - lack of affection, lack of guilt and lack of empathy
- 14 of 44 thieves could be described as affectionless psychopaths
- Of these, 12 had experienced prolonged separation rom their mothers in the first two years of life
- In the control group, only 2 of 44 experienced long separations
- Evaluation
- Counter evidence - Lewis (1954)
- Animal studies show effects of maternal deprivation
- Shows that maternal deprivation can have long term effects
- Levy (2003) - rats study
- Shows that maternal deprivation can have long term effects
- Failure to distinguish between privation and deprivation
- Rutter (1981)
- Separation v Deprivation
- Monotropic Theory
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