KEY POINTS

• WHO CREATED THE MONOTROPIC THEORY OF ATTACHMENT?

  Bowlby
• WHAT DOES THE EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH SUGGEST?

  come into world biologically programmed to form attachments as they are crucial for survival (innate tendency to form attachments to primary caregiver)
• HOW TO REMEMBER KEY POINTS OF BOWLBY'S MONOTROPIC ATTACHMENT THEORY?

  MASIC
• KEY POINTS OF BOWLBY'S MONOTROPIC ATTACHMENT THEORY?

  • monotropy
  • adaptive
  • social releasers
  • internal working model
  • critical period
• WHAT DOES MONOTROPY STATE?

  children form one extremely special attachment with their mother (one ever-present adult)
• WHAT DOES ADAPTIVE STATE?

  attachments are adaptive, as they give us an 'adaptive advantage' helping us to survive (kept safe, warm and given food)
• WHAT DOES SOCIAL RELEASERS DO?

  'unlock' innate tendencies of caregivers to look after infants
• WHAT ARE THE TWO TYPES OF SOCIAL RELEASERS?

  physical or behavioural
• EXAMPLE OF PHYSICAL SOCIAL RELEASERS?

  typical 'baby face' features/ proportions
• EXAMPLES OF BEHAVIOURAL SOCIAL RELEASERS?

  crying/ cooing
• WHAT IS THE INTERNAL WORKING MODEL FORMED THROUGH?

  monotropic attachment
• WHAT IS THE INTERNAL WORKING MODEL?

  blueprint for relationships (how to behave/ what to expect), which all the child's later relationships will be based on
• WHAT IS THE CRITICAL PERIOD?

  period of time where attachments must be formed
• WHEN IS THE CRITICAL PERIOD?

  6 months - 2.5 years
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF AN ATTACHMENT IS NOT FORMED DURING THE CRITICAL PERIOD?

  child will be damaged permanently socially, emotionally, intellectually and physically