early influence of relationships on attachment

• bowlby's internal working model suffers from determinism - it assumes that children that do not have an internal working model will fail to form long term relationships which might not be the case
• show that what happens in early life will impact later life; suggests that first few years can be a 'blue print' for the rest of your life
• hazan and shaver love quiz - procedure:

  1. measure of attachment type = checklist of childhood relationships with parents and parent's relationships with each other2. love experience questionnaire 620 replies, assesses individuals' beliefs about romantic love, classified the respondents according to Ainworth's attachment types of infants
• hazan and shaver love quiz results:

  • secure attachment = -described their love experiences as happy, friendly and trusting ; relationships tended to be more enduring
  • insecure resistant = - experienced love as involving obsession, a desire for reciprocation, extreme sexual attraction and jealousy
  • insecure avoidant =  typically feared intimacy, emotional highs and lows, jealousy and believed they did not need love to be happy
• weakness of approach:

  • correlation not causationretrospective data; can't verify collected data, memory inaccuracy, demand characteristics, social desirabilitydeterministic: early life WILL impact later life, they suggest that it is inevitablerecovery is possible: Bowlby didn't considerresearch has ethical issues and cultural bia