attachment

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    • survival value
    • reproductive value
    • evolutionary theory
    • innately programmed
      • long-term benefits
      • natural selection
    • social releasers (instinctive behaviours)
      • desire/ability to care
      • protect baby from harm
    • monotropy
      a single attachment to the person most important to the baby
    • critical period

      2.5-3 years
    • internal working model

      template for their future relationships
    • continuity hypothesis

      individuals who are strongly attached in infancy continue to be socially and emotionally competent
    • bowlbys monotropic theory ao3 - strength
      • empirical evidence
      • lorenz 1952
      • reared geese from when they hatched and they imprinted on him
      • they followed him everywhere and preferred to be around him even as adults
      • monotropy, infants make a special bond to a primary caregiver
      • supports bowlbys claim
    • bowlbys monotropic theory ao3 - weakness
      • supporting evidence
      • non-human animals
      • precocial animals (mobile from birth) - unlike human babies
      • lacks population validity
      • can't be generalised or represented
      • reduces validity
      • supporting evidence is a flaw
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