Bowlby
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- Created on: 23-02-16 11:29
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- Bowlby's monotropic theory (ASSMIC)
- Adaptive
- Attachments are adaptive and a product of evolution
- Sensitive period
- Bowlby said critical period of about 0-2 1/2 yrs. Rutter modified to babies are most likely to be attached during sensitive period (4-6 mnths)
- Social releasers
- Child has built in mechanisms for encouraging care giving behaviour from parents
- Monotropy
- A child must have one main primary attachment
- Internal working model
- Based on Freud's idea of the mother-child relationship acting as a prototype for all future attachments
- Continuity hypothesis
- Internal working model ensures early attachments are reflected in later relationship types
- Evaluation
- A weakness is that there is implications of the monotropy theory because mother may go back to work and leave child in a day care. Therefore it lacks validity because there are many children who do not have one primary caregiver
- A strength is that there is animal evidence showing there is a critical period (Lorenz's Geese). Therefore it has a higher reliability because there is other evidence supporting the theory
- A weakness is that there is contradictory such as Schaffer & Emerson's findings of multiple attachments. Therefore there is a lower validity because there is evidence which suggests other wise of this theory
- Adaptive
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