explanations of attachments exam questios

Question 1

outline research findings that challenges the learning theory of attachment

Answer 1

harlows study contadicts the theory ,the learning theroy would suggest the monkey would spend more time with the wire mother as this provided the food .however monkeys spent 22hours with the cloth mother shows that food is not the most important factor in establishing attachment

schaffer and emerson found less than half of infants had a primary attachment to the person who feeds them

Question 2

referring to abi and her family ,explain what psychologists have discovered about the internal working model

Answer 2

attachment to the primary care giver provides the child with internal working model of relationships (bowlby), abis secure childhood relationships would have given her a positive internal working model.The internal working model acts a s a template for future relationships and is continued across generations

abis understanding of relationships has been carried foward.she has a positive relationship with her 2 children , abis children use their internal working model fo their relationship with abi , which helps them make friends easily