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psy126: psychology and the developing learner

   

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Running head: PSYCHOLOGY’Discuss the importance of early attachments for the lifelong formation of relationships’.Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1PSYCHOLOGYMany psychologists have argued that early attachments are having an impact on thelater relationship that an individual forms. The emotional association that is formed inbetween the infant and their caregiver is the only way where the baby can get its basic needsmet in their helpless state. This further becomes the motor for their following social,emotional as well as cognitive developments (Lamb, 2013). Therefore, attachment is a strongand enduring emotional relationship that binds one person with another. In this essay, thediscussion will be on the importance of early attachments for the lifelong formation ofrelationships. As stated in the continuity hypothesis that there exist uniformity between the earlyemotional attachments and the relationships that are formed later in a lifespan and it alsoobserves that an individual’s attachment style in their childhood is reflected in their laterrelationships (Holmes, 2014). However, this idea is established upon the internal workingmodel that has been proposed by Bowlby in his theory of monotropic. According to Bowlby,attachment is monotropic that means infants has an inborn tendency where they can form anattachment with a particular individual. Thus, the attachment that they form is strongest of allrelationships and act as a model for their future relationships. The infant depending on thismodel will expect similar relationships with others in the future (Ludolph, 2012). Therefore,the idea of this internal working model is mainly a framework for the following relationshipsthat is built upon the infant’s early attachments and effects the upcoming relationships in theirlifespan. Many attachment theories are there which a child can develop in their infancy, asAinsworth has divided these into secure, insecure avoidant and insecure resistant while; hewas focusing with his ‘strange situation’ research. As found in Johnson’s book of 2014, itwas seen that based on Ainsworth’s researches and the predictions of Bowlby, Hazan andShaver built an experiment named ‘love quiz’ to investigate the notion that there is aconsistency between the attachments build in early life with that of the romantic relationships
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