Bowlby's monotropic attachment theory (1969)
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- Created on: 24-03-18 21:10
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- Bowlby's monotropic attachment theory (1969)
- M
- Monotropy
- Infants have one special emotional bond
- Primary attachment relationship
- Often the biological mother , not always
- Infants have one special emotional bond
- Monotropy
- S
- Social releasers
- Mechanisms to promote attachment such as crying, smiling
- 1. Hearing a bay cry,
- 2. Makes the parent uncomfortable
- 3. Therefore they are innately driven to comfort the child to ensure the survival of the baby and therefore their own genes.
- 2. Makes the parent uncomfortable
- Social releasers
- I
- Internal Working Model
- is a mental set of expectations about what relationships will be like, forming in early infant’s attachment
- It acts as a template for future relationships, thus a faulty internal working model may have a harmful impact
- Short term
- Gives the child insight into the caregiver's behaviour and enables the child to influence the caregiver's behaviour - a true partnership can be formed
- Long term
- Acts as template for future relationships as it generates expectations about what intimate, loving relationships are like
- is a mental set of expectations about what relationships will be like, forming in early infant’s attachment
- Internal Working Model
- A
- Adaptive
- Attachment behaviour evolved as it serves an important survival function - an infant who is not attached is less well proctected
- Parents must be attached to their infants in order to ensure that they are cared for and survive
- It is only the parents who look after their offspring that are likely to produce next generations
- Adaptive
- C
- Critical Period
- a limited window for development of all biological systems take place most rapidly and easily during a critical period
- Outside of this time window such development will not be possible
- Attachment must form in the early ages of 2 1/2 years
- If attachment isn't formed during this critical period, then child would be damaged for life
- 'PIES ' -Physically - Intellectually - Emotionally - Socially
- If attachment isn't formed during this critical period, then child would be damaged for life
- a limited window for development of all biological systems take place most rapidly and easily during a critical period
- Critical Period
- M
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