influence of early attachment on later relationships

Question 1

internal working model

Answer 1

quality of a child’s first attachment is crucial because this template will powerfully affect the nature of their future relationships

child whose first experience is of a loving relationship, will tend to assume that this is how relationships are meant to be

Question 2

secure attachment (childhood behaviour)

Answer 2

very likely to be involved in bullying

Question 3

insecure resistant (childhood behaviour)

Answer 3

children were the most likely to be victims

Question 4

insecure avoidant (childhood behaviour

Answer 4

children were more likel to be bullied

Question 5

aim hazen and shaver

Answer 5

conducted a classic study of the association between attachment and adult relationships

Question 6

procedure hazen and shaver

Answer 6

analysed 620 replies to a love quiz printed in an American newspaper
quiz had 3 sections
1.current relationship/ most important relationship
2.number of partners
3.asking respondents to choose which of three statements best describe their feelings

Question 7

findings hazen and shaver

Answer 7

56% of respondents were identified as securely attached
25% insecure avoidant and 19% insecure-resistant
the avoidant repondenets tended to reveal jealousy and fear of intimacy

Question 8

relationships in adulthood

Answer 8

bailey et al assessed 99 mothers with one year old babies
assessed mothers quality of attachment with child using standardised interview procedures
assessed child’s attachment to mother using observations

Question 9

weakness-evidence on continuity of attachment type is mixed

Answer 9

internal working models predict continuity between the security of an infants attachment and that of its later relationships
evidence for this continuity is mixed for example some studies do appear to support continuity

Question 10

weakness-research lacks validity

Answer 10

most of the studies of the influences of early attachment on later relationships lack validity
e.g many assessments of early attachment and current day attachments rely on the use of questionnaires and interviews

Question 11

weakness-association does not mean causality

Answer 11

in those studies where infant attachment type is associated with the quality of later relationships the implication is that infant attachment type causes the attachment

Question 12

weakness-self report is concisions but internal working models are not

Answer 12

there is a theoretical problem with most research related to internal working models for example internal working models are unconscious we are not directly aware of their influence on us