Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Bowlby
- Evolutionary Theory
- ASCMI Q
- Adaptive
- Babies have an innate drive to
attach and attachments are
adaptive
- This means they are more likely to survive
- Social Releasers
- Social releasers unlock the innate
tendency of adults to care for them
- Physical
- Behavioural
- Critical Period
- Babies must form
attachment within the
critical period between
birth and 2 to 3 years old.
- Since renamed as the sensitive period
- Monotropy
- Bowlby believed infants formed one
very special attachment with the
mother
- Internal working model
- A special mental schema for relationships
- All the child's future adult relationships will be based on this
- Quality
- Quality rather than quantity of care is important
- Supporting
Evidence
- Harlow's Monkey's
1959
- Monkey's became moreattached to the cloth
mother, despite getting food from the wire mother.
- Support's Bowlby's idea of a critical period. Harlow concluded that for
a monkey to develop they must have some interactionwith an object
to which they can cling during the first months of life
- Hazan and Shaver's Love Quiz
- Developed a love quiz to
investigate whether early
attachment type affected
future relationships.
- A high correlation was found
between childhood attachment
types and adult love styles
- Supports continuity hypothesis
- Tronick
- Studied children in
extended family
groups, children were
cared for by whomever
closest and were
breastfed by different
women.
- At one years the children had formed
an attachment to their biological
mother
- Supports Bowlby's idea that
quality and sensitivity is more
important than quantity
- Links to Ainsworth Maternal Sensitivity Hypothesis
- Criticisms
- Little evidence to support monotropy
- Strength of attachment could be
explained by temperament (Kagan)