The Influence Of IMT / Early Att On Childhood, Romantic And Rs With Own Children Flashcards
What are the three AO3 PEELS to evaluate The Influence Of IMT / Early Att On Childhood, Romantic And Rs With Own Children?
RTS by Harlow
Weakness - deterministic
Weakness - retrospective data
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(RTS by Harlow)
RTS influence of early att on later rs was conducted by Harlow
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Harlow seperated monkeys from their mothers at birth and raised them in cages, therefore they had no early att
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He found that the monkeys had difficulty forming rs when they were older, struggled mating and females were inadequate mothers
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Therefore this supports the influence of early att on later rs bc it shows that having a neg early att can lead to neg later rs with partners and own children
Counter argument
However, critics would argue that harlows research may not be representative of humans as theyre rs are more emotionally complex than animals, limiting rts
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(Weakness - deterministic)
However, the influence of early att on later rs can be criticised for being deterministic
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this is bc the theory states that our bhv in later rs is determined by early rs , e.g. having a neg early att with c.g. will lead to a person having neg att with own children
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This neglects the role of free will and choice an indv has e.g. insecure + neg att in childhood may choose to have a secure + pos att rs with own child to what they experienced with own parents
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therefore limiting the research into the influence of early att on later rs
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(Weakness - retrospective data)
Finally, research - based on retrospective data
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as ppts often have to think back to their early att e.g. in hazen and shavers love quiz questionnaire investigating the effect of an early att on quality of later rs
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this is a weakness as it relies on indv accurately recalling their early att, and using memory solely has been found to be inaccurate
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therefore this lowers the int val of research
