Attachment bowlby

Question 1

What is the acronym to help remember Bowlby’s concepts about attachment?

Answer 1

ASCMI

Question 2

What is the ‘A’ in ASCMI?

Answer 2

Adaptive

Question 3

What is the ‘S’ in ASCMI?

Answer 3

Social Releaser

Question 4

What is the ‘C’ in ASCMI?

Answer 4

Critical period

Question 5

What is the ‘M’ in ASCMI?

Answer 5

Monotropy

Question 6

What is the ‘I’ in ASCMI?

Answer 6

Internal Working model

Question 7

A social releaser is?

Answer 7

Things like crying which make a parent stay close and care for the baby

Question 8

What does Adaptive mean?

Answer 8

Something which is beneficial to our survival e.g. having parents who love us when we are babies

Question 9

Monotropy is?

Answer 9

a single bond considered more important than any other

Question 10

The critical/sensitive period is?

Answer 10

where attachment needs to occur for a healthy, normal human to emerge

Question 11

How long is the critical/sensitive period?

Answer 11

Around 2.5 years

Question 12

A secure base is?

Answer 12

using your parent as a base from which to explore and interact with the world

Question 13

An internal working model is?

Answer 13

where your early relationship becomes a schema for future relationships, how they treat you is stored in our memory

Question 14

What is the continuity hypothesis?

Answer 14

The idea that our future relationships when we are older are similar to those we had with our parents when young

Question 15

Which part of ASCMI does Robertson and Robertson specifically disagree with?

Answer 15

Monotropic bond/Critical period- They showed as long as their was good care it didn’t need to be with the monotropic figure

Question 16

How many of Bowlby’s 44 thieves were considered affectionless Psychopaths?

Answer 16

14

Question 17

What did Lorenz show?

Answer 17

Critical periods and attachment in general are adaptive and evolved

Question 18

Hazan and Shaver show?

Answer 18

IWM is supported- childhood attachment does match adult attachment types

Question 19

Spitz Shows?

Answer 19

The critical period is supported, children raised in an institution showed depressiona and behavioural issues

Question 20

Evolutionary theories like this are a problem because?

Answer 20

Retrospective and post-hoc, you cannot measure our ancestors and so cannot make concrete judgements about it’s validity

Question 21

Rutter criticised Bowlby for

Answer 21

Over focus on the mother and focusing on the separation rather than the cause of separation

Question 22

Schaffer and Emerson found what % of children had multiple bonds (disproving monotropic bonds)

Answer 22

27%

Question 23

Why is Bowlby seen as socially controlling and socially sensitive (or lacking temporal validity at least)?

Answer 23

Reinforcing gender roles of women staying at home for childcare

Question 24

What is a problem of the concept of the IWM/Schemas?

Answer 24

The IWM is not empirical because you cannot directly test them

Question 25

What is attachment?

Answer 25

The loving bond between two people where they are not interchangable with others