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Explanations of Attachment: Bowlby's Monotropic Theory - Coggle Diagram
Explanations of Attachment: Bowlby's Monotropic Theory
Key Features
Social Releasers
Behaviours: Crying, Babbling, Mutual gazing, cuddling etc.
The PAF (mother) is programmed to indistinctively respond to child's social releasers
Both mother and baby have an
innate predisposition
to form an attachments
Critical Period
Negative consequences if not attachments are formed
Affectionless psychopathy (Emotional impact)
Developmental retardation (Intellectual impact)
Infant forms attachments easily
Window of Development
First 3 years of an infants life
Adaptive and Innate
Babies are born with
instinct
Innate drive to form an attachment
Therefore is adaptive
Increases likelihood of survival
Allows for reproduction and genes being passed on
Internal Working Model
Template for all future relationships is based on first monotropic attachment
Child forms mental representation
(SCHEMA)
of relationship with primary caregiver
Continuity Hypothesis
: clear link between early attachment and later emotional behaviour
IWM is an internalised concept about how relationships work and impacts all future relationships
Positive
IWM= secure attachment, lots of friends, good parent, healthy romantic relationships
Negative
IWM= insecure attachment, clingy or commitment issues, being bullied or a bully, poor parenting
Monotropic
Infants for
one
strong attachment
It is a
qualitatively
different attachment to all others
Normally the PAF
Other Features
Law of
Acculative separation
: every separation the caregiver has can add up and therefore the safest number is 0
Law of
Continuity
: the more time the baby spends with the caregiver and the more constant and predictable the child's care is means they form a better quality attachment