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• What do children develop based on their first relationship?

  An internal working model
• How do children use their internal working model?

  As a model for future relationships
• What effect does a loving relationship with a caregiver have on a child?

  They seek out functional relationships
• What happens to a child with bad experiences in their first attachment?

  They may struggle to form relationships
• What is the continuity hypothesis?

  Later relationships are influenced by earlier experiences
• How does attachment type affect peer relationships in childhood?

  It is associated with the quality of friendships
• What did securely attached infants tend to form?

  The best quality childhood friendships
• What did Kerns (1994) find about insecurely attached infants?

  They later have friendship difficulties
• How many children participated in Myron-Wilson and Smith's study?

  196 children
• What was the most common outcome for secure children in the study?

  They were unlikely to be involved in bullying
• Which group was most likely to be victims of bullying?

  Insecure-avoidant children
• Which group was most likely to be bullies?

  Insecure-resistant children
• What was the aim of Hazan and Shaver's 'Love Quiz'?

  To see if attachment type correlates with romantic relationships
• What is a hypothesis?

  A testable statement about variables
• What is a directional hypothesis?

  It states the expected direction of results
• What is a non-directional hypothesis?

  It states there will be a difference but not the direction
• What does a null hypothesis state?

  There will be no difference in results
• What was the procedure of Hazan and Shaver's 'Love Quiz'?

  It included measures of attachment type and love experiences
• Where was the 'Love Quiz' published?

  Rocky Mountain News
• What did Hazan and Shaver find about secure types in their study?

  They described love experiences as happy and trusting
• What did anxious-resistant types experience in love?

  Obsessive feelings and emotional highs and lows
• What did anxious-avoidant types typically fear?

  Intimacy and emotional highs and lows
• What correlation did Hazan and Shaver find in their study?

  Between infant attachment types and adult love styles
• What did Hazan and Shaver conclude about the inner working model?

  It has a life-long effect on relationships
• What did Feeney and Noller (1990) find about securely attached individuals?

  They had the most enduring romantic relationships
• What did Keelan, Keelan, and Dion (1994) find about secure attachment styles?

  They expressed more satisfaction and commitment
• What did McCarthy (1999) study focus on?

  Women’s attachment types and romantic relationships
• What did McCarthy find about anxious-avoidant infants?

  They had the most difficulty in romantic relationships
• What did McCarthy find about securely attached infants?

  They had the most successful romantic relationships
• How does attachment type influence parenting style?

  It tends to be passed on through generations
• What did Bailey et al. (2007) study?

  The attachments of mothers to their babies
• How was mother-baby attachment measured in Bailey et al.'s study?

  Using the Strange Situation
• What did Bailey et al. find about attachment classifications?

  Majority had the same classification to their babies