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Psychology - Attachment ~ continuation (Bowlby's Theory of Maternal…
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loving caregiver & consistent in care, no separation: loving future relationships & family.
poor caregiver, accumulated separation: poor future relationships & family
Monotropic Theory and the Critical Period are important in affecting future relationships because they carry out our perception of what relationships are supposed to be like.
(+)EVALUATION: Real-life application in the effects of institutionalisation. It has lead improvements in the way children are cared for in institutions. Langton had a key worker playing a central role to a child's attachment so they have a chance to develop normal attachments and help avoid disinhibited attachment. Research from institutions in relation to attachments is therefore immensely valuable in practical terms.
(+)EVALUATION: It's very difficult to observe the effects of institutionalisation in isolation due to children dealing with multiple factors such as may have experienced neglect or abuse which functions as confounding participant variables. However, in the case of the Romanian study, it's been possible to study institutionalisation without these CVs which increases its internal validity in the findings.
(-)EVALUATION: May lack generalisability due to the Romanian orphanages had poor standards of care especially when forming relationships as well as extremely low levels of intellectual stimulation. This unusual situational variables means the study may lack generalisability.
(-)EVALUATION: The quality of infant attachments can be very likely that it can influence later relationships, however, researchers such as Bowlby have probably exaggerated the significance of this influence as people are not always going to have bad relationships due to attachment problems in the past, they just have a greater risk in terms of attachment formation.
(-)EVALUATION: There is issues of validity in the "love quiz" study due to retrospective self-report being the form of measurement. The validity in the findings is limited because it depends on respondents being honest and having a realistic view on their own relationships and accurate recollections of their childhood. Their memory could be inaccurate or they are more prone to lie in their answers.