Explanations of attachment: Bowlby’s Theory
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- Explanations of attachment: Bowlby's theory
- A has evolved because it increases likelihood of survival and reproduction
- An infant who is not attached is less protected
- Parents mus also be attached to baby - ensure care
- An infant who is not attached is less protected
- Critical period
- Innate drive to become attached
- Forms around 3-6 months - infants who doent have the oppurtunity struggle later on
- Determined by sensitivity
- Social releasers
- Smiling, having a babyface - all elicit caregiving
- Innate
- Monotropy
- Has 1 special emotional bond to primary attachment relationship
- Important for healthy psychological and social development
- Has 1 special emotional bond to primary attachment relationship
- Consequence of attachment
- Mental representation of relationship = Internal working model
- Continuity from infancy to adulthood in terms of emotional type
- Mental representation of relationship = Internal working model
- Support for internal working model
- 99 mothers assessed with 1Yr old babies on quality of their attachment to their own mothers using an interview
- Support for social releasers
- When mothers ignore babies signals = initially showed some distress
- Responded by curling up and lying motionless - strong response
- When mothers ignore babies signals = initially showed some distress
- Sensitive period not critical
- Rutter = less likely to form attachement but is still possible
- Can take place outside period = LV
- Rutter = less likely to form attachement but is still possible
- Supporting research
- Followed pptd from infancy to late adolscence and found securley attached = high social competence, less isolated and more popular
- A has evolved because it increases likelihood of survival and reproduction
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