Bowlby's Theory
A mind map showing all the key features in the John Bowlby's Theory.
- Created by: Aishwarya
- Created on: 17-05-13 17:49
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- Bowlby's Theory
- Evolutionary Theory
- Monotropy: The attachment a child makes with one person (usually with the mother; primary caregiver).
- Attachment - An emotional bond between 2 people
- Attachment is adaptive and innate
- Children have an innate drive to become attached to a primary caregiver
- Adaptive (behaviours): Behaviours that increase the likelihood of survival and in the end, reproduction.
- Imprinting also takes place.
- Imprinting: The innate readiness to form a strong emotional bond with a mother figure
- Innate: Inborn characteristics; a product of genetic factors
- Attachment is adaptive and innate
- Sensitive Period
- The time during which a child is sensitive to a specific form of stimulation, resulting in a development of a specific response.
- The second half of the first year is the most important time for a child to form attachments
- Caregiving
- Caregiving, like attachment is also innate (inbuilt) because it is adaptive (increases the chances of survival).
- Social releasers: Behaviour that induces the response of caregiving
- E.g.- When a baby cries, laughs or smiles.
- A secure base
- Attachment acts as a secure base in which a child can explore and can safely return to, even when threatened
- It gives the child independence
- Internal Working Memory Model
- This acts as a template for an individual to predict and control their environment
- 1. SHORT TERM: The child begins to slowly understand the caregivers behaviour and influences the caregiver's behaviour, so that an attachment can form
- LONG TERM: It acts as a template for future relationships and creates expectations about how people behave
- This acts as a template for an individual to predict and control their environment
- Continuity Hypothesis
- The notion that the early secure attachment a child experiences will carry on in later life
- Evolutionary Theory
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