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