Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Evolutionary theory
- Outline
- Bowlby
- Attachment forms - emotional bonds to protect child from predators
- Genetically programmed for survival
- Social releasers
- Child interacts with caregiver
- Facilitates the attachment process
- Crying - attention
- Looking/vocalising - maintain attention
- Follow and cling for physical contact
- Directed at caregiver
- Caregiver programmed to respond
- Babies are monotrophic
- Attachments are made before 3
- Critical period
- These first attachments form template for later relationships
- Internal working model
- Evaluate
- Bowlby based his research on precocial species
- Schaffer and Emerson proved babies form more than one bond - dad
- The emphasis is on the mother, yet fathers involvement is key
- This research has been applied to real life
- eg. children in day care