Bowlby's Evolutionary Theory Evaluation

Positves and Negitives of Bowlby's evalutaionary research

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Positive of Evolutionary Research
Because of research we now know that children should be placed with foster parents before the end of the critical period - allowing attachments to form
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Positive of Evolutionary Research
Has lead to extensive research into attachment, allowing us to better understand a child's psychological development
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Positive of Evolutionary Research
'Love Quiz' by Hazan and Shaver supports what is being said about the Internal Working Model and there being a connection between the way we are treated as children and our ability to forge relationships in later life
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Negative of Evolutionary Research
Main and Goldwyn research concludes that a parent-child relationship doesn't always impact later relationship development
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Negitave of Evolutionary Research
If innate then we would expect all child to attach to their caregiver in the same way, however it has been proven that a child can have more than one primary attachment of equal strenght
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Negative of Evolutionary Researh
Post Hoc - Can not be completely verified nor can it be completely disregarded
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Has lead to extensive research into attachment, allowing us to better understand a child's psychological development

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Positive of Evolutionary Research

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'Love Quiz' by Hazan and Shaver supports what is being said about the Internal Working Model and there being a connection between the way we are treated as children and our ability to forge relationships in later life

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Main and Goldwyn research concludes that a parent-child relationship doesn't always impact later relationship development

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If innate then we would expect all child to attach to their caregiver in the same way, however it has been proven that a child can have more than one primary attachment of equal strenght

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