Internal Working Model Flashcards
What does this internal working model act as?
A template for future relationships
Why is the quality of the child’s first attachment crucial?
Because this template will powerfully affect the nature of their future relationships
A child whose first experience is of a loving relationship with a reliable caregiver will tend to assume what?
That this is how relationships are meant to be
They will seek out what?
Functional relationships and behave functionally within them
What will happen to a child who experiences a bad first attachment?
It will bring bad experiences to beat on later relationships
What do bad experiences mean?
They struggle to form relationships in the first place or they may not behave appropriately when they have them
What did John bowlby suggest?
That a child having their first relationship with their primary attachment figure forms a mental representation of this relationship
