provides an in-depth summary of all A01 sections, with reference to relevant research pieces needed. Also provides an outline of all evaluation points for each section to be able to use in questions needing A03
Influence of early attachment on later
Romanian orphan studies
Disinhibited attachment: child equally friendly r/ships
to familiar adults and strangers Internal working model: created by monotropic
Rutter: (2011) English and Romanian adoption attachment, template for all future r/ships
study Childhood friendships: look at early attachment
- Natural experiment style to mum and then how they behave with
- Either adopted before 6months, before friends when older
2yrs or after 2yrs - Myron-Wilson and smith
- Control group (52 UK adopted children o Type C = bullies
- Physical, cognitive, emotional o Type A = victims
development looked at 4,6,11,15yrs o Type B = good quality friends
(longitudinal study) Parenting: bailey
Results: - 99 mothers asked about childhood
- IQ - Attachment styles as babies predicted
o 6 months – 102 parenting style when they were mums
o 2yrs – 86
o +2yrs – 77 P – contradictory evidence
- Disinhibited attachment after 6 months E – Zimmerman, mixed evidence, no r/ship
common, rare before 6 months found between attachment to parents and then
future adolescence
P – natural experiment E – the internal working model not reliable
E – children could have been impaired at birth – L – cannot be certain it has predictive value
maybe why they weren’t chosen for adoption
until after 2yrs P – issues with the way data in this is collected
E – could be this natural difference causing low E – retrospective data used, hazen and shaver
IQ, not adopted later asked about past, memory issues – can we
L – lowers validity accurately recall our childhood attachment
styles
P – practical application E – if the attachment style isn’t remembered
E – improvements in institutions, key workers properly, how do we know whether it can
to children ratio 1:3 predict future attachments?
E – research helped to change lives of many L – research unscientific
children
L – real value P – other factors could predict later attachment
type better
P – long term effects not clear E – temperament may be better predictor of
E – adolescence ends at 24, so children with future attachments than quality of attachment
lower IQ could catch up still when older as an infant
E – too soon to say what true effects of E – perhaps personality of the baby predicts
institutionalisation are attachment style shown altering the
L – lacks validity monotropic r/ship and subsequent internal
working model
L – internal working model is not complex
enough as does not consider other factors
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