Bowlbys mono tropic theory

• Innate process - promotes survival, and so it cannot be left to chance or to be learnt
• One key attachment - with the primary caregiver, acts as a template for future relationships

  (internal working model). Acts as a safe base for exploration, important for healthy cognitive

  development
• Critical period - 9 months to 3 years
• Bowlby believed that infants form key attachment (usually with their mother) who becomes their

  primary attachment. This bond is important as it acts as a template for the infants' later

  relationships by developing a set of unconscious rules and expectations for relationships. This

  is called the internal working model
• Bowlby suggested that attachment is an innate process

  that promotes survival and so it is too vital to be left to chance or it being learnt. Bowlby also

  suggested that there is a critical period between 9 months - 3 years in which this attachment

  can occur.