Attachment - influence on later relationships

Question 1

Internal working model

Answer 1

schema built in childhood based on attachment that forms our idea of what a relationship is

Question 2

continuity hypothesis

Answer 2

future relationships follow pattern based on internal working model

Question 3

secure attachment impact on childhood

Answer 3

good quality and trusting relationships

Question 4

secure attachment impact on adulthood

Answer 4

secure, trusting relationships and belief in long lasting love

Question 5

avoidant attachment impact on childhood

Answer 5

victims of bullying, less likely to have a special friend

Question 6

avoidant attachment impact on adulthood

Answer 6

doesn’t believe in long lasting love, uninvolved, finds it hard to get emotionally close to people

Question 7

resistant attachment impact on childhood

Answer 7

be bullies, hard to maintain friendships

Question 8

resistant attachment impact on adulthood

Answer 8

controlling and argumentative, paranoid their partner will leave them

Question 9

Hazan and Shaver’s love quiz (1987)

Answer 9

published in newspaper, almost 100 question questionnaire, 620 participants. 56% secure. 25% avoidant. 19% resistant

Question 10

evaluation of the love quiz

Answer 10

• self report more likely to show demand characteristics and social desirability bias
• unreliable memory
• sample bias
• correlation is not causation

Question 11

strengths of research on the effects of attachment on later life

Answer 11

+ practical applications
+ supporting evidence - Bailey (2007) studied 99 infants and mothers, found that they all had the same attachment style to both their infant and mother (inter-generational)

Question 12

limitations of research on the effects of attachment on later life

Answer 12

• Bowlby said the IWM is unconscious so we can’t study it (?)
• relying on retrospective data (memory = unreliable)
• temperament could be extraneous variable
• conflicting evidence - Becker-Stoll et al. longitudinal study on 43 individuals, no evidence of link between attachment style and later relationships

Question 13

Hartup et al (1993)

Answer 13

found infants with secure attachment type were more popular at nursery and interacted more with children rather than teachers/adults

Question 14

impacts of attachment on childhood

Answer 14

temperament and interactions as we grow
choice of romantic partners
ability to navigate romantic and platonic relationships later in life

Question 15

impacts of childhood on adulthood

Answer 15

stability of romantic relationships
parenting style and attachment to children