Influence of early attachment Flashcards
(6 cards)
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Internal working model, an infant learns about a relationship from experience - learn about how partners in a relationship will behave towards eachother, operal model of self and attachment partner based on their joint attachment history
Operable as it is used to predict behaviours of these people in the future
AO1 hazan ans shaver
Study to investigate the internal working model
Placed a love quiz in the rocky mountain news asking questions about current attachment experiences and about past attachment history to identify current attachment types, also asked questions on opinions of love
620 responses
Findings- found that prevealce of attachment styles was similar to that found in infancy, positive correlation to attachment types and love experiences
secure- happy r no anxiety
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Supporting evidence of meta analysis on attachment and its role in socio emotional development concluded that early attachment types are predictors of future relationships
secure attachment- happy r
ao3
Longitudinal study shows early attachment influences later relationships, secure attachment means higher socio- emotional skills, close peers, express emotion, skills which make a relationship healthy have been found
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Confouding variables lower validity
attachment influences may be due to genetic factors such as personality type
parenting styles may influence later relationships
infant temperament may affect the way the parent responds to affects later attachments
vOne limitation of research into the influence of early attachment is that it relies on retrospective assessment
Most of the studies involve assessing adult participants through questions about their early life, relationships with parents, peers and partners
Childhood attachment types are then identified from these findings
This method lowers the validity of the findings:
Participants may not be honest in their responses or may not have accurate memories of their childhood
