bowlby
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- Created on: 06-03-14 13:43
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- Bowlby's Theory of attachment
- suggested that attachment formation was an essential survival mechanism to ensure that physically helpless infants were cared for and nurtured in order to survive
- human beings have an innate predisposition to become attached to a caregiver because of its long term benefits, which are similar to imprinting
- internal working model: a cluster of concepts about relationships and what do expect from others (differs from person to person)
- sensitive/ critical period: mothering must take place within a certain time frame for the child to become attached
- mothering is useless for most children if delayed until 12months
- useless for all children if delayed for 2.5 to 3 years
- a childs attachmenet behaviour determines how far they will move away from the caregiver
- attachment behaviour determines how fat they will move away from caregiver
- imprinting: an innate readiness to develop a strong bond with a mother figure
- Lorenz who showed that goslings attached to the first figure they saw. this suggests that young animals imprint on the first object it sees
- contiunity hypothesis: the idea that there is a link between early attachment relationship and later emotional behaviour
- monotropy: a strong innate desire to become attached to one person usally with the mother
- this attachment is unique its the first to develop and is the strongest of all
- caregiving is adaptive: it is also innate because it has evolutionary advantages (increases chances of offsprings survival)
- babies are born with certain characteristics which encourage caregiving know as social releasers (crying, smiling)
- suggested that attachment formation was an essential survival mechanism to ensure that physically helpless infants were cared for and nurtured in order to survive
- suggested that attachment formation was an essential survival mechanism to ensure that physically helpless infants were cared for and nurtured in order to survive
- human beings have an innate predisposition to become attached to a caregiver because of its long term benefits, which are similar to imprinting
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