Attachment- Bowlby Key Terms

Question 1

Adaptive

Answer 1

Attachment Is biologically programmed at birth, it enables survival and later reproduction

Question 2

Social releasers

Answer 2

Infants emit social releasers, to which adults are biologically attuned to: physical appearance, crying, smiling etc. These stimulate caregiving from adults.

Question 3

Critical period

Answer 3

Children’s most sensitive period to the development attachment within the first 2.5 years of life. Later got renamed as the sensitive period which made it that an attachment must be formed in the first 5 years of life rather than 2.5

Question 4

Monotropy

Answer 4

Infants are programmed to attach to whoever responds to their releasing stimuli: they select one special attachment figure (monotropy) who is used as a safe base for exploring the world. It is different and more important than others

Question 5

Internal working mode

Answer 5

Affects your later behaviour in relationships: the primary attachment is the mental template for what future social relationships are like

Question 6

Continuity hypothesis

Answer 6

When internal working model plays out (when it does affect their parenting/ relstionships)