attatchment

• Children have a innate drive to become attached to a caregiver becasue attatchment has long term benefits 
• There is a sensitive period which is that infants need to form there main attatchments between the ages of 0-3 because past then and it will bbecome harder to form that attatchment 
• The drive to provide caregiving is also innate because its adaptive. social releasers are certain characteristics for eg smiling or crying. 
• Monotrophy is having a relatoinship with one main caregiver -the primary carer 
• The continuity hypothesis is that there is a link between the early attatchment relationships and later emotional behaviour 

strengths:

• imprinting in non human animals:imprinting is innate 
• sensitive period: once this period has passed it is difficult to form attatchments. 
• universality: we would expect attatchment and caregiving behaviours to to be universal 
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