Chapter 4 Attachement

Question 1

What’s an internal working model?

Answer 1

Mental representations of the world+relationships that influence how we feel and behave (sometimes called scheme)

Question 2

What did Bowlby hypothesise about internal working models?

Answer 2

That people with secure internal working models of relationships as a child will develop secure relationships as adults & the opposite got an insecurely attached

Question 3

What evidence is there for the influence of early attachments on childhood relationships?

Answer 3

Myron-Wilson and Smith-questionnaire to assess the attachment type and bullying in 196 children aged 7-11

Question 4

Results of Myron-Wilson and Smiths study?

Answer 4

Securely attached were least likely to be involved with bullying
Insecure avoidant = victim
Insecure resistant = bully

Question 5

What evidence is there for the influence of early attachments on parenting?

Answer 5

Quinton 1984

Compared 50 women that had been raised in institutions to a control group of 50 women raised at home

Question 6

Results of Quintons study?

Answer 6

The women raises in institutions had significantly more problems with parenting in comparison to control group

Question 7

What evidence is there for the influence of early attachments on adult relationships?

Answer 7

Hazan & Shaver 1987

• Tested if there was a relationships between a childhood relationship and an adult one
• Conducted a Love Quiz on Over 200 men and over 400 women

Question 8

Results of Hazan and Shavers study?

Answer 8

Positive correlation -those who has a secure attachment as children were more likely to show a secure pattern as an adult
-Securely attachment were more likely to have positive internal working models about romantic relationships

SUPPORTING BOWLBYS CONTINUITY HYPOTHESIS

Question 9

What contradicting evidence is there for Bowlbys continuity theory?

Answer 9

Zimmerman et al

• Assessed the attachment type of 44 children using the strange situation and found the quality of relationships was related more to later life events that her than their early attachment
• Temperament may also be a variable as the social temperament makes it easier to have a secure attachment

Question 10

What’s Bowlbys continuity hypothesis?

Answer 10

Early attachments create internal working models about relationships that continue to effect later relationships