Bowlby's Monotropic Theory

Monotropy

• Attachment to 1 particular caregiver- unique attachment. Bowlby called this person the mother (does not have to be biological)
  
• Primary Attachment Figure (mother figure)
• Law Of Continuity- The more constant/predictable a child's care, the better the quality of their attachment.
• Law Of Accumalated Separation- Effects of every separation from the mother add up, and the safest dose is therefore a zero dose.

Social Releasers and The Critical Period

• Babies are born with 'innate behaviours'- smiling, cooing etc- to encourage attention from adults.
• 'Social releasers' - actvate adult attachment system.
• Both mother and…