Bowlby & Evolutionary Theories on Attachment

Behavior such as smiling, crying etc

Designed to get caregiver's attention

Infant attaches itself to caregiver for resources

Ensures species survival

Without interaction attachment is not ensured

Needed for survival

Infants will not form bonds through stress or pain releif, a carer has to be consistant to win attachment

Child develops a heirarchy of caregivers with one primary

Based on care given

Proven to be utter shite

Packets of information contained in the memory

Childs schema of caregiver:

Gives Food

Gives Affection

Gives Shelter

Gives Protection

A set of expectations developed by the infant's attachment to its caregiver

Tells the infant if it can rely on its caregiver to give it support in times of stress etc

Also effects future attachments and effects how the infant or adult will react in socail situations

Infants are given a set of behaviours that are designed to call the mother to its side:

Crying

Mimicking

Laughter

Infants are naturally inclined to help caregivers in everyday scenario's

Infants will try to engage socailly with the caregiver to ensure a tight bond is made

Infants (and adults) will keep close to people who they are attached to

Returning back to the caregiver if faced with:

Fear

Stress

Danger

The caregiver has a proximity where the infant is safe to explore the surrounding area

Often shown when the infant checks to see if caregiver is still within close proximity when exploring nearby area's

Discomfort is shown when the infant is:

Taken away from the carer

Carer ignores the infant

A certain time in the infants childhood where strong bonds are much more likely to take place