Bowlby's Monotropic

Question 1

Adaptive

Answer 1

Attachment is an innate system
Inherited in order to improve survival therefore adaptive. Programmed to attach.

Question 2

Social Releaser

Answer 2

Infants are born with social releasers such as smiling, crying and looking cute.
Triggers a response in a caregiver and ensures interaction take place to form an attachment.

Question 3

Critical period

Answer 3

Critical period for attachment in an infant to take place. Biological. Attachment does not take place in 2.5 years. It may not happen at all.

Question 4

Monotropy

Answer 4

Great emphasis on a child attachment to one caregiver.
Called this person mother but doesn’t need to be biological

Question 5

Internal Working Model

Answer 5

Mental representation that the child forms of their relationship with their primary caregiver.
Use their attachment relationship with their caregiver to build an expectation of future relationship.
Passed on from one generation to the next.

Question 6

P : RTS Lorenz

Answer 6

E: Studied imprintings on gosling and found a critical period of 12-17 hours in which imprinting take place.
E: Supports Bowlby’s concept of a critical period that infants must attach within 2.5 years.
L: Therefore strengthing Bowlby’s monotropic theory. Conducted on geese while humans are more emotionally complex.

Question 7

P: Not the only explaination weakness

Answer 7

E- Alternative explanation is learning theory
E- we learn to attach to a feeder via stimulus response and association rather than attachment being innate.
L- bowbly theory is not only explanation of how and why infants attach.

Question 8

P- RTC Shaffer and Emerson who has evidence that supports multiple attachment

Answer 8

E- they found these multiple attachment may help children develop socially, emotionally and cognitively.
E- contradicts the monotropy theory and the idea of having one attachment limiting the monotropic theory.