Bowlby's Evolutionary Theory
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- Created on: 28-03-16 19:35
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- BOWLBYS EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
- Adaptive
- Born with innate drive
- Evolved
- Useful
- Social releasers
- Crying and smiling
- Causes interaction
- Critical period
- Biological process
- 3 year period to form attachments
- More sensitive period
- Monotropy
- PCG is 1 parent
- PCG attachment was different and more important than others
- PCG called mother
- Internal working model
- Model for what relationships are like
- Positive relationship with parents = positive relationship in future
- Poor relationship with parents = poor relationship in future
- Affects later ability of parents them sleves
- Continuity hypothesis
- A warm continuous relationship with the mother or permanant mother substitute is essential for healthy attachment to occur, as it gives individuals a 'working model' about how relationships function
- A03
- Mixed evidence for monotrophy
- Unclear whether something unique about the first attachment
- Support for social relasers
- Brazleton et al. 1975
- Observed mother and babies
- Observation to exeperiment
- Instructed to ignore babies signals (social releasers)
- Babies showed distress, curling up lying motionless
- Observed mother and babies
- Children respond so strongly
- Brazleton et al. 1975
- Animals have a critical period
- Lorenz
- Goose has a critical period of 12-17 hours of when attachments can be formed by imprinting
- Lorenz
- Mixed evidence for monotrophy
- Adaptive
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