Attachment MS

• Outline how Lorenz and Harlow studied attachment using animals (6)

  • randomly divided the geese eggs
  • incubated half
  • Mother raised the other half
  • set up mother wire dispensing food, cloth wire with no food
  • long term effects recorded eg. socialisation
  • time spent with wire mother recorded
• Outline findings from research into the role of the father in attachment

  • 75% formed by 18 months
  • single fathers likely to adopt traditional maternal role
  • role of the father can vary based on the infant's gender
  • father is more 'playful' which is just as important for infant
• Explain the economic implications of research into the role of the father in attachment

  • paternity leave
  • gender pay gap
• Suggest one way in which studies of attachment could be improved by using controlled observations.

  • minimises extraneous variables
  • standardising procedures --> reliable
  • Therefore easier to establish cause and effect relationships
• Discuss research into the influence of early attachment on adult relationships (8)

  • Internal Working Model - deterministic
  • Institutionalisation