evaluation

• reductionist as it focuses on basic process. S-R links, reinforcement are too simplistic to explain complex attachment behaviours. Therefore the theory is limited.
• environmentally deterministic- ignoring potential biological influences. therefore the theory is incomplete.
• counter evidence for learning theory- around 40% were attached to someone who did not feed them- schaffer and emerson, harlow- monkeys attached for comfort not food, fox- nurses fed children- but mothers were still attachment figure