Explanations of Attachment: Bowlby
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- Created on: 28-06-17 11:40
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- Explanation: Bowlby
- Attachment is innate so behaviours are adaptive in order to promote survival
- Monotropy - unique attachment between mum + baby - gives out social releasers
- Mum is biologically programmed to respond to social releasers
- signals that get mum's attention, e.g. crying, screaming
- Mum provides secure base for baby to explore, providing internal working model (IWM)
- Template to know how to form relationships later in life
- Continuity hypothesis: those who don't have early attachments have intellectual/emotional difficulties in late life
- Schaffer + Emerson found some babies form multiple attachments, refuting monotropy
- Brazleton found that is mum ignored social releasers, the baby became distressed, so supports significance of social behaviour in eliciting caregiving
- Hazan + Shaver 'Love Quiz' relationships in early years reflected relationships with later partners, thus supporting IWM
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