Attachment Theory

Bowlby said that attachments have evolved because they are adaptive.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which of the following is important for forming attachments according to Bowlby?

• Food

• Secondary drives

• Conditioning

• Social releasers

Which of these is the most accurate definition of "monotropy"?

• Children only ever have one attachment

• All children's attachments are of equal importance

• Children have one attachment that is more important than any others

• The child's attachment must be the biological mother

Which of the following are true of Bowlby's view on a critical period?

• He did not believe there was a critical period at all

• He believed that the critical period was the first few weeks of life

• He believed there was a sensitive period of about 5 years, after which attachments were harder to form

• He believed that there was a critical period from birth to 2.5 years

Which of the following is consistent with Bowlby's idea of the internal working model?

• A child with a loving and reliable first relationship will expect to be let down in the future

• A child will bring the qualities of its first relationship to future relationships

• A child's first attachment will affect its romantic relationships but not its abilities as a parent

• Functional families tend to produce dysfunctional children

The purpose of social releasers is to elicit adult caring behaviour.

• True

• False

Which of these is the continuity hypothesis?

• The more constant and predictable the child's care, the better the quality of their attachment

• The effects of each separation add up therefore the more separation experienced, the worse the effects

• Young animals stay close to their caregivers to protect them from hazards

What were Schaffer & Emerson's findings?

• Attachment to the mother is more important for predicting later behaviour than attachment to the father

• Children are capable of forming multiple attachments at the same time

• Mothers and babies show synchrony in their interactions

Bailey et al found mothers who had poor attachments to their own parents showed poorer attachments to their infant. This finding...

• ...contradicts monotropy

• ...supports the evolutionary basis of attachment

• ...contradicts the existance of social releasers

• ...supports the idea of internal working models