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• lacks validity

  • relationship with primary attachment figure may just be stronger and more frequent than other attachments rather than different in quality like Bowlby believed
  • other family members may develop attachments with the baby that have the same qualities such as comfort and a secure base to explore
  • Bowlby may have been wrong to suggest the quality of attachment with the primary caregiver is better
• Brazelton et al - social releasers 


  • instructed primary attachment figures to ignore their babies social releasers
  • babies initially showed distress but eventually curled up and lay motionless
  • relates to how babies engage in interactions and do these actions as a way to probe the caregiver to interact and pay attention to them
• Bailey et al - internal working model 


  • studied 99 mothers and their relationships with their mothers and with thier babies
  • those with poor attachment with their mothers were more likely to have babies worse attached
  • supports bowlbys idea of an iwm model of attachment as it is being passed through families
• outdated and sexist

  • saw fathers role as primarily economic and had nothing to do with the childs upbringing
  • nowadays theres an importance of equal responsibility for childcare in many families