Evaluation Of Bowlby's monotropic Theory

Question 1

What does research evidence support?

Answer 1

The continuity hypothesis that there is a consistency between early attachment types and later relationships

Question 2

What do Schaffer and Emersons findings also suggest even though they are against Bowlby’s findings?

Answer 2

That infants have one primary attachment figure

Question 3

What have Bowlbys ideas sometimes been hijacked by?

Answer 3

Right wing politicians as scientific proof that women should stay at home with their children instead of working

Question 4

What does Bowlby see fathers as?

Answer 4

Minor attachment figures but research suggests that fathers can still be attached