Attachment bowlby Flashcards
What is the acronym to help remember Bowlby’s concepts about attachment?
ASCMI
What is the ‘A’ in ASCMI?
Adaptive
What is the ‘S’ in ASCMI?
Social Releaser
What is the ‘C’ in ASCMI?
Critical period
What is the ‘M’ in ASCMI?
Monotropy
What is the ‘I’ in ASCMI?
Internal Working model
A social releaser is?
Things like crying which make a parent stay close and care for the baby
What does Adaptive mean?
Something which is beneficial to our survival e.g. having parents who love us when we are babies
Monotropy is?
a single bond considered more important than any other
The critical/sensitive period is?
where attachment needs to occur for a healthy, normal human to emerge
How long is the critical/sensitive period?
Around 2.5 years
A secure base is?
using your parent as a base from which to explore and interact with the world
An internal working model is?
where your early relationship becomes a schema for future relationships, how they treat you is stored in our memory
What is the continuity hypothesis?
The idea that our future relationships when we are older are similar to those we had with our parents when young
Which part of ASCMI does Robertson and Robertson specifically disagree with?
Monotropic bond/Critical period- They showed as long as their was good care it didn’t need to be with the monotropic figure
How many of Bowlby’s 44 thieves were considered affectionless Psychopaths?
14
What did Lorenz show?
Critical periods and attachment in general are adaptive and evolved
Hazan and Shaver show?
IWM is supported- childhood attachment does match adult attachment types
Spitz Shows?
The critical period is supported, children raised in an institution showed depressiona and behavioural issues
Evolutionary theories like this are a problem because?
Retrospective and post-hoc, you cannot measure our ancestors and so cannot make concrete judgements about it’s validity
Rutter criticised Bowlby for
Over focus on the mother and focusing on the separation rather than the cause of separation
Schaffer and Emerson found what % of children had multiple bonds (disproving monotropic bonds)
27%
Why is Bowlby seen as socially controlling and socially sensitive (or lacking temporal validity at least)?
Reinforcing gender roles of women staying at home for childcare
What is a problem of the concept of the IWM/Schemas?
The IWM is not empirical because you cannot directly test them
What is attachment?
The loving bond between two people where they are not interchangable with others
