Early attachment

Question 1

Internal working model

Answer 1

• mental representation of our relationship to primary attachment figure carries our perception of what relationships are like
  e.g. insecure insecure-avoidant attachment infants may then be emotionally detached in future relationships

Question 2

Childhood relationships K

Answer 2

Kerns:
-secure attachment = best quality friendship
- insecure attachment = friendship difficulties

Question 3

Childhood relationships WS

Answer 3

• Wilson & Smith
• 196 London children
• 7-11
  Questionnaire assessing attachment type and bullying involvement
• secure= unlikely to be involved
• insecure avoidant = victims
• insecure resistant = bullies

Question 4

Procedure HS

Answer 4

• Hazan and Shaver
• 620 replies to love quiz
• assessed: current relationship, general love experiences, attachment type
• 56% secure attached = positive longer-lasting romantic experience
  25% insecure-avoidant = jealousy and fear of intimacy
• 19% insecure-resistant = fear of abandonment`

Question 5

Procedure B

Answer 5

• Bailey
• 99 mothers and their 1y babies
• measured mother’s attachment to their own primary attachment figures
• assed quality attachment with infants
• majority had same attachment classifications with their mother and their own children

Question 6

Conflict

Answer 6

• Regensburg longitudinal study
• 43 individuals from 1-16
• At 16 attachment assessed using the adult attachment interview
• no evidence of continuity
• implies other important factors

Question 7

Retrospective

Answer 7

• Most research ask adolescent/adult participants about their relationship with parents and use this to assign attachment type
• relies on the honesty and accuracy of participants
• hard to know whether early or adult attachment is being assessed
• high levels of other confounding factors make info meaningless

Question 8

Confounding variables

Answer 8

• Even early attachment assessments may have validity problems
• e.g. parenting style may influence attachment quality and later development
• genetically-influenced personality may be an influence
• Cannot be sure early attachment affects development and not other factors

Question 9

Future

Answer 9

• Self-fulfilling prophecy
• Knowledge could lead to intervention and help their development

Question 10

Mnemonic

Answer 10

CRCF

Question 11

Cheerful Rabbits Collect Fruit

Answer 11

Conflict, Retrospective, Confounding variables, Future