The influence of early attachment

• influence of early attachment - IWM

  internal working model

  • expectations about how to related to others formed by early experience with primary caregiver
  • IWM of infant likely to predict behaviours in childrhodd
  • sensitive responsiveness from caregiver
• influence of early attachment - relationships in childhood

  Kerns

  • securely attached infants more inclined to have quality peer relationship during childhood & vice versa
• influence of early attachment - romantic relationships in adulthood

  Hazer and Shaver

  • love quiz in local American newspaper
  • 620 volunteer response
  • 56% secure
  • 25% insecure
  • 19% insecure resistant
• influence of early attachment - parenting

  Bowlby et al

  • 100 mums and infants
  • vast proportion of women had same attachment type to infant as own mother
• influence of early attachment AO3

  -internal working model only correlational - not reliable

  • Fraley et al found correlations were not always strong positive with co-efficient ranging from +0.10 to +0.50

  -methodological issues with assessing attachment type

  • love quiz relys on self report about memories from infancy - recollection more likely to be impared

  -overly deterministic suggesting their is no room for alternative path