Influence of early attachment on later relationship evaluation

Weakness - the internal working model may not be important to development
Zimmerman (2000) assessed infant attachment type and adolescent relationships to parents and found very little relationship to them. This is a problem as it suggests the internal working model is not important to development

Weakness - there are problems with self-report techniques
Assessing infant-parent attachments using an interview or questionnaire creates validity problems as the assessments rely on self-report techniques which depend on participants being honest and realistic about their relationships. Self-report techniques have low validity; their retrospective nature means that they depend on accurate recollections, which also lack validity

Weakness - there are alternative explanations for the continunity that exists between attachment type…