influence of early attachment on relationships

• Continuity Hypothesis (suggested by Bowlby's attachment theory)

  -that early relationships with our caregivers provide the basis on how we'll conduct our later adult relationships
• what becomes an internal working model for what we believe relationships should be like?

  the attachment styles we learn as infants and young children
• what's the IWM similar to?

  schema

  -as it shapes your expectations within relationships
• attachment styles 


  -Bowlby suggests we develop them

  -consists of 2 attitudes
• attitudes (attachment styles)


  -self esteem

  -interpersonal trust
• self esteem


  attitude about ourselves
• interpersonal trust

  attitude about other people
• what do these 2 attitudes develop from?

  -from our earliest interactions with caregivers