Bowlby's Theory of attachment
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- Evolutionary Theory (John Bowlby's theory)
- Attachments are innate and adaptive
- They enhance the likelihood of survival and reproduction
- Attachment figures provide a secure base from which the child can explore and develop independence whilst still feeling safe and protected
- Infants display behaviours and characteristics called social releasers which trigger a biological care giving reaction
- A special relationship with a primary attachment figure, which Bowlby called monotropy
- Acts as a template of expectations for all later relationships as a result of the internal working model
- Attachment type in early childhood is said to indicate behaviour patterns in later life.
- This is called the continuity hypothosis
- An attachment forms with the person who responds more sensitively to the baby's needs
- provides the best quality care
- Attachments are innate and adaptive
- Attachment figures provide a secure base from which the child can explore and develop independence whilst still feeling safe and protected
- Evidence
- Evolutionary Theory (John Bowlby's theory)
- Attachments are innate and adaptive
- They enhance the likelihood of survival and reproduction
- Infants display behaviours and characteristics called social releasers which trigger a biological care giving reaction
- A special relationship with a primary attachment figure, which Bowlby called monotropy
- Acts as a template of expectations for all later relationships as a result of the internal working model
- Attachment type in early childhood is said to indicate behaviour patterns in later life.
- This is called the continuity hypothosis
- An attachment forms with the person who responds more sensitively to the baby's needs
- provides the best quality care
- Attachments are innate and adaptive
- one main attachment
- large study in Glasgow
- children did form one primary attachment even though they also formed several others within their families
- Study of babies in an African society found that babies formed one main attachment with their mothers
- even though they were breastfed & cared for by whoever was available
- A review of several studies in 2006 found that although children form several attachments there is a main attachment figure
- support Bowlby's idea of monotropy
- large study in Glasgow
- Most sensitive carer =attachment figure
- Babies in Kibbutzim in Israel are cared for most of the day and even sleep in large nurseries where they are cared for by nurses.
- they spend a few hours with their mothers after work. The babies in the study were most strongly attached to their mothers
- Suggests that sensitive care is the most important factor in the formation of the attachment as the nurses had to look after many children and changed regularly
- they couldn't give such good quality care to the individual babies whereas the mothers provided very sensitive care
- Suggests that sensitive care is the most important factor in the formation of the attachment as the nurses had to look after many children and changed regularly
- they spend a few hours with their mothers after work. The babies in the study were most strongly attached to their mothers
- Babies in Kibbutzim in Israel are cared for most of the day and even sleep in large nurseries where they are cared for by nurses.
- Continuity between the nature of the1st attachment and later relationships
- 1)Children who had the most secure relationship with their mothers as babies formed better friendships with other children
- than those who were less securely attached
- 2)Those who had secure relationships as babies had happier more trusting romantic relationships as adults
- supports Bowlby's theory that the first attachments sets the pattern for all other relationships
- 1)Children who had the most secure relationship with their mothers as babies formed better friendships with other children
- Evolutionary Theory (John Bowlby's theory)
- Suggests that sensitive care is the most important factor in the formation of the attachment as the nurses had to look after many children and changed regularly
- they couldn't give such good quality care to the individual babies whereas the mothers provided very sensitive care
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