Explanations of attachment
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- Explanations of attachment
- Bowlby's theory
- Monotropy
- An infant's primary attachment is the most important
- Law of continuity
- The more constant and predictable a child's care, the better their attachment
- Law of accumulated separation
- The effects of every separation from mother adds up
- Law of continuity
- An infant's primary attachment is the most important
- Social releasers
- A set of innate cues that activate adult social interaction
- Critical period
- 2 years
- Sensitive period
- 6 months
- Internal working model
- The representation of the relationship a person has to their primary caregiver
- Affects future relationships
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Supporting evidence for social releasers
- Brazelton et al
- Supporting evidence for IWW
- Bailey et al
- Supporting evidence for social releasers
- Weaknesses
- Lacks validity
- Schaffer and Emerson
- Lacks validity
- Strengths
- Monotropy
- Learning theory
- Dollard and Miller
- Attachment is formed through classical and operant conditioning
- Classical conditioning
- Caregiver is associated with food
- Operant conditioning
- Learning from the consequences of behaviour
- Classical conditioning
- Attachment as a secondary drive
- Sears et al
- Satisfaction of the primary hunger drive is associated with the caregiver
- Sears et al
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Even if it doesn't explain all attachment, conditioning may still play a role
- Weaknesses
- Opposing evidence
- Harlow
- Schaffer and Emerson
- Isabella et al
- Opposing evidence
- Strengths
- Bowlby's theory
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