Later relaionships

• what did the love quiz measure?

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  • asked about current relationship
  • asked about general love experiences
  • last section asked respondents to choose a statement that most matched their feelings
• what did the love quiz show?

  • secure attached people had good relationships
  • avoidant experienced jealousy and fear of intimacy
• what did bailey study?

  • internal working model n mothers
  • asked 99 mothers about their relationship with their mothers
  • then observed their relationship with their own children
• what did Bailey find?

  • mothers displayed their own attachment types. their children
  • supporting bowlbys theory of internal working models
• evaluate the love quiz

  • susceptible to social desirability bias
• evaluate baileys study

  • Mothers might be acting on social desirability bias
  • restrospective data
• evaluate the internal working model

  • deterministic approach
  • internal working models are unconscious and we measure these by using our conscious memories of past relationships which doesn’t make sense theoretically