Blowby On Attachment

Question 1

What is attachment?

Answer 1

The emotional bond formed between infants/young children and their main caregivers

Question 2

What is the main aim of his theory?

Answer 2

Bolwby stated that infants are biologically pre-programmed to form attachments

Question 3

What are the reasons for his main aim?

Answer 3

• infancy is a critical period for developing attachments
• infants form 1 primary attachment in Thier early months
• attachments to primary caregiver is essential
• if there is a distribution within the process then it had negative impacts on development
• it forms as a model for future attachments

Question 4

What theory challenges Bowlby?

Answer 4

-Schaffers theory of attachment does this.

Question 5

How does Schaeffer and Emerson’s theory challenge Bowlby’s theory?

Answer 5

• it found that children form multiple attachments to others members of the family
• the attachments develop over time with the first initial attachment being it with the mother.