The AQA Specification:
Remember, the exam-board specification is your revision checklist – in order to be successful and achieve a good grade you must make sure that you enter the exam hall knowing everything that is listed on the specification.
Attachment Specification (what the exam-board want you to know)
- Caregiver-infant interactions in humans: reciprocity and interactional synchrony.
- Stages of attachment identified by Schaffer.
- Multiple attachments and the role of the father.
- Animal studies of attachment: Lorenz and Harlow
- Explanations of attachment: Learning Theory
- Explanations of attachment: Bowlby’s monotrophic theory. The concepts of a critical period and an internal working model.
- Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation.’ Types of attachment: secure, insecure-avoidant, insecure-resistant.
- Cultural variations in attachment, including Van Ijzendoorn.
- Bowlby’s theory of Maternal Deprivation. Romanian orphan studies: effects of institutionalisation.
- The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships, including the role of the internal working model.
