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• Bowlby believed that attachment was an innate system that gives a survival advantage? Attachment evolved as a mechanism to keep young animals safe by ensuring they stay close to adult caregivers, placed a great emphasis on one child's attachment to one care giver. This was called the mother. The more time baby met spent with this mother of figure out a primary attachment figure, the better he put forward two principles to clarify this, the law of continuity stated that the more constant and predictable a child's care, the better the quality of their attachment. The law of accumulated separation stated that the effects of every separation from the mother add up and the safest dose is therefore a deep zero dose.
• Babies are born with a set of innate cute behaviours like smiling, cooing and gripping that encourage attention from adults. These are called social releases. Attachment is a reciprocal process where both mother and baby are hardwired to become attached. Bobby proposed there is a critical. around six months when the infant's attachment system is active. A child is maximally sensitive as six months and is possibly extends up to the age of 2.
• The child forms a mental representation of their relationship with the primary attachment figure called an internal working model child. whose first experiences of a loving relationship with a reliable care giver will tend to form the expectation that all relationships are loving and reliable. They will bring these qualities for future relationships, the internal working model affects the child's later ability to be a parent themselves. People tend to base their parenting behaviour on their own experiences of being parented. This explains why children from functional families tend to have similar families themselves.
• What is monotropy?

  Bowlby placed great emphasis on the child's attachment to one caregiver, called the mother.
• What are the 2 principles he put forward to clarify this?

  • The law of continuity: the more constant and predictable a child's care, the better the quality of their attachment
  • The law of accumulated separation: the effects of every separation from the mother add up
• What is the critical period?

  A specific time in development when certain skills or abilities must be acquired. A child is maximally sensitive at 6 months and this possibly extends up to the age of 2. If a child is maximally sensitive at 6 months and this possibly extends up to the age of 2.