influences of early attachment

Question 1

childhood relationships

Answer 1

affiliations with other people in childhood including friends and adults

Question 2

internal working model

Answer 2

our mental representations of the world

Question 3

childhoods

Answer 3

attachment type is associated with the quality of peer relationships in childhood
- securely attached babies tend to go on to form the best quality childhood relationships, whereas insecure ones tend to have later friendship difficulties

Question 4

role of the internal working model

Answer 4

a child with bad experiences of their first attachment will bring these bad experiences into relationships later on in life
- insecure avoidant or resistant
- struggle to form relationships in the first place

• babies who experience a loving one will assume this is how all relationships to be
• will then seek out functional relationships

Question 5

limtiation: validity issues

Answer 5

early attachment is assesed retrospectively
- most research between early and later aren’t longitudional
- ask pts about early relationships with their parents and identify attachment from this
- suffers from reliability and difficult to tell if early or adult attachment is being assesed
- may be confounded with other factors and are therefore meaningless

Question 6

strenght

Answer 6

explains why some people struggle to form relationships who have experienced trauma or abuse at childhood subconsciously