Outline and evaluate one or more explanations of attachment

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Outline and evaluate one or more explanations of attachment   John Bowlby believed that infants and carers are innately programmed to become attached; he believed that attachment is important for survival due to human infants being physically helpless and need adults to feed, care and to protect them. The infants are born with a tendency to form an attachment with whatever serves to increase their chances of survival; adults are also programmed to attach to their infants.
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Another proposition made by Bowlby was that attachment plays a role in later development – monotropy and the continuity hypothesis; he argued the theory of monotropy which is where an infant is genetically programmed to form a strong attachment with one particular individual, usually the mother, however this is not always the case. The first attachment is qualitatively different from other relationships and it provides infants with an internal working model for other relationships. The continuity hypothesis, Bowlby argued that what happens early in life continues to have an impact later on e.g. a good relationship in early life continues ...

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