The influence of early attachment

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How do infants learn about relationships through experince?
through the internal working model
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What do infants learn through the internal working model?
the Infant learns what relationships are, and how parteners in a relationship behave towards each other
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Why have Bretherton and Mulhooland (1999) described the IWM as an "oprable" model of the self and atachment partner based on attachment history?
It is oprable because it is used to predict the behaviour of others in the future
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How did Shaver and Hazan test the IWM?
Hazan and Shaver produced the "Love Quiz" and published it in the Rocky Mountain news
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What did the "Love Quiz" ask?
It asked questions about current attachment experiences and about attachment history to identify current and childhood atachment types. It also asked questions about love, assesing the IWM
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How many responses did Shaver and Hazan (1987) get?
620 (205 from men and 415 from women)
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What did Shaver and Hazan find out about attachement types?
56% were clasified as secure 25% as avoident ans 19% as resistent
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What correlational evidence did Shaver and Hazan find?
Securely attached PPs reported their love experiances as happy, friendly and trusting and emphisised the ability to support their partener despit their faults
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What further evidence did Shaver and Hazan find that suggested that securly attached individuals had a positive IWM
their loving relationships lasted longer - 10 years on average compared with 5 or 6 for resistent or avoident PPs
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What are the four behaviours influenced by the IWM?
childhood friendships, poor parenting, romantic relationships and mental health
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What evidnence is their that secure attachment positivly effects childhood friendships?
Sroufe (2005) Minnisota child parent study found that if a child was securly attachend they rated highest for social competence as well as being less isolated, more popular and more empathetic
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How can this be explained using the IWM?
because securly attached infants have higher expectations that people are friendly adn trusting
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