Continuity Hypothesis / how past interactions influence future relationships

Question 1

What is the continuity hypothesis

Answer 1

early relationships with care givers influence later relationships in adulthood.

a continuity between childhood experience and later teenage/ adult relationships

Question 2

What were the aims of Hazan and Shaver (1987)

Answer 2

• identify how attachment type may influence relationships in adulthood

Question 3

what was the procedure of Hazan and Shaver (1987)

Answer 3

• published in a newspaper (600+) responses
• individuals identify attachment type in an interview
• Qs then differentiated people in their own styles of romantic love

Question 4

what were the findings of Hazan and Shaver (1987)

Answer 4

• secure = likely (loving / trusting)
• resistant = likely (worried - experience love in extreme highs and lows)
• avoidant = likely (feared intimacy - do not think they need love to be happy)

Question 5

Hazan and Shaver Eval - self selecting sample

Answer 5

• participants volunteered
• not getting a cross section of the Target Population
• extreme views

Question 6

Hazan and Shaver Eval - questionnaire

Answer 6

• acquiescence bias - social desirability

Question 7

Hazan and Shaver Eval - retrospective

Answer 7

• cannot completely trust in memory, can decay/ not fully reliable.

Question 8

Hazan and shaver eval - cause and effect

Answer 8

• two DV measured
• assumptions made

Question 9

Simpson (2007) - aims

Answer 9

• study people in 4 key points within their lives tracking their progress in relation to their attachments and relationships

Question 10

Simpson (2007) - procedure

Answer 10

• longitudinal study - 25+ years
• 4 stages = infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood

Question 11

Simpson (2007) - findings

Answer 11

• securely attached infants higher social competence as children, strong emotional bonds as adolescents and strong romantic relationships

Question 12

Simpson (2007) eval - sample

Answer 12

small and highly selective - US - bias

Question 13

Simpson (2007) eval - social factors

Answer 13

• social factors can have a significant influence over relationships and development - confounding variable

Question 14

Extra research = McCarthy (1999)

Answer 14

40 insecurely attached women = poor relationships

Question 15

Extra research = Bailey (2007)

Answer 15

99 babies - strange situation - same attachment as their mothers