Bowlby's Theory of Attachment

Bowlby suggested that attachment was ...

• innate

• evolutionary

• innate and evolutionary

Bowlby's Theory of Attachment is called the ...........theory?

• Maternal deprivation

• Monotropy

• Learning

Why did Bowlby think that attachment was evolutionary and provided survival advantage?

• keep young animals safe by ensuring they stay close to caregivers for protection.

• to keep them near food

• to ensure that they were protected from disease

What does monotropy mean?

• there is a critical and sensitive period by which the child should have formed an attachment

• food is the most important factor in the attachment

• attachment to one particular primary attachment figure – different / more important than others

Match the terms

• a social innate behaviour eg cooing

• The law of accumulated separation:

• constant care= better quality attachment

• Social releasers

• effects of every separation add up

• •The law of continuity:

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What ages were the critical and sensitive periods that Bowlby stated attachments should have developed by.

• Critical - up to 18 months

  Sensitive - up to 3 years

• Critical - 6months to 2 1/2 years

  Sensitive - up to 5 yrs

• Critical - up to 5 years

  Sensitive- up to 8 years

Bowlby's theory also includes the internal working model which states that...

• We form schema so that we know how to respond appropriately to objects and people

• Our minds are like computer models

• A child forms a mental representation of their relationship with their PAF – serves as a model for what relationships are like.

Which term is not included in Bowlby's Monotropy Theory of attachment

• Innate

• Evolutionary

• Social releasers

• Neutral stimulus

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Strengths of Bowlby

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(b) Limitations of Bowlby

• Implications for mothers returning to work. 

• Research supports the idea of a critical period for attachment

• Validity

• Highlights the role of attachment in social and emotional well-being

• Bowlby's theory emphasizes the importance of the mother-child bond

• patterns of attachment will be passed onto generations

  Bailey (2007)

• Genetic differences in anxiety and sociability

• Influenced subsequent research on attachment styles

• Bowlby's work laid the foundation for understanding emotional development

• Real world applications

  Eg workers in day-care nursery.

• Brazelton evidence from social releasers

Which famous study was carried out which led to 3 different attachment types?

• Harlow's Monkey research

• Lorenz's imprinting research in geese

• The Strange Situation

• Bobo Doll