Wednesday, 27 February 2013

How does childhood influence adult romantic relationships?


Sorry it's taken me so long to post this one...

There is some fairly strong evidence for children with secure attachments with their primary care givers growing into adults with secure romantic relationships, with less happy futures ahead of infants who form insecure avoidant or resisntant/ambivalent attachments. The debate is essentially nature vs nurture - the 'continuity hypothesis' is on the nurture side; it is Bowlby's view that infants learn an Internal Working Model of relationships during the critical period in the first two years of their life. However, it could be that they were born that way - the 'temperament hypothesis'.

Here is the presentation, but we only really used the first slide on Monday - your homework is to complete your notes on these and bring them along next Tuesday:
  1. Outline Bowlby’s evolutionary theory of attachment. (two sentences max) 
  2. Describe the procedures and findings of the strange situation. (two sentences max) 
  3. Describe the procedures, findings and conclusions of the ‘Love Quiz’. 
  4. What is the ‘continuity’ explanation for this? 
  5. What alternative explanations exist? 
  6. How strong is the evidence for continuity overall?

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