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Attachment
infoWhy this? Attachment explores how early emotional bonds develop and how they may influence later relationships. Comparing learning and evolutionary explanations, cultural research, and evidence from institutional care helps us evaluate developmental claims without assuming that early experience fixes later outcomes.
scheduleWhy now? This final Year 12 unit revisits conditioning from approaches and applies our research-evaluation skills to developmental, cross-cultural, and animal studies. Its consideration of early attachment and later relationship patterns provides a foundation for the relationships unit in Year 13.
neurologyYou need to know
- Animal studies in attachment: Lorenz and Harlow
- The learning theory and how it helps explain attachment
- Bowlby's monotropic theory
- The different types of attachment humans can form
- The different cultural variations of attachment
- English and Romanian Adoptees project
- The influence of early attachment to later relationships
rocket_launchYou must be able to
- Develop knowledge on the different types of attachments we form throughout life
- Describe the stages of attachment
- Understand the different learning theories behind attachment
- Understand the consequences of poor attachments
- Analyse and evaluate the research on attachment
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