Influence Of Childhood

Question 1

Expectations of later relationships can be a continuation of what?

Answer 1

Early attachment types

Question 2

What does an infants primary attachment figure promote?

Answer 2

An internal working model of relationships

Question 3

What can lead to an attachment disorder?

Answer 3

Experience of abuse or neglect in childhood

Question 4

What may an attachment disorder mean?

Answer 4

The individual may resist or reject intimacy in adult relationships

Question 5

Other than attachment type what can influence later relationships?

Answer 5

Peer relations

Question 6

Why are peer relationships important for later relationships?

Answer 6

They can confide in friends which promotes feelings of trust

Question 7

What happens in later childhood/adolescents?

Answer 7

Attachment shifts from parents to peers

Question 8

What did Madsen find?

Answer 8

Adolescents with the heavy dating frequency had poorer quality young adult relationships

Question 9

What does Madsons research suggest

Answer 9

Too much dating in adolescence can be maladaptive

Question 10

Who came up with the research support for the link between early attachment style and success in later relationships

Answer 10

Fraley

Question 11

What did Fraley find?

Answer 11

Correlations from 0.1 to 0.5 between attachment type and later relationships demonstrating a fairly strong link

Question 12

What does the link between some attachment types and adult relationships were unclear suggest

Answer 12

Some attachment types are more unstable overtime

Question 13

What does the attachment theory fail to look at?

Answer 13

How relationship experiences can alter attachment

Question 14

The idea that experiences alter due to experiences is supported by what finding?

Answer 14

That breakups are associated with a shift from secure to insecure attachment

Question 15

Outline Simpson’s et Al’s longitudinal study

Answer 15

Look at infants, children, adolescents and adults and identified their attachment types at each

Question 16

What did Simpson et al find?

Answer 16

Expression of emotion in adult relationships can be traced back to early attachment experiences

Question 17

What is the temperament hypothesis?

Answer 17

Looks at the quality of adult relationships as being determined by innate personality factors

Question 18

What does the temperament hypothesis do?

Answer 18

Suggest that attachment styles are irrelevant and attempting to change them to improve relationships won’t work

Question 19

What’s a methodological problem of the approach?

Answer 19

Research involves highly selective samples, usually from the US and so lacks external validity as its not an accurate representation and so can’t be generalised and applied

Question 20

Outline how the approach is gender bias

Answer 20

Make and female gender groups have different influences on adult relationships. Girl groups tend to be more influential than boys