CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first formal theory of attachment was presented by ____
A
Bowlby
B
Erikson
C
Ainsworth
D
Willingham
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Attachment is the two-way process through which infants form emotional bonds with another person-particularly a parent. 5. The first formal theory of attachment was presented by John Bowlby.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the 1960s Bowlby turned to study the normal process of attachment, working with a psychologist, Mary Ainsworth, with whom he developed attachment theory.

Detailed explanation-3: -Background: Bowlby’s Theory of Attachment The theory of attachment was originally developed by John Bowlby (1907-1990), a British psychoanalyst who was attempting to understand the intense distress experienced by infants who had been separated from their parents.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bowlby’s evolutionary theory of attachment suggests that children come into the world biologically pre-programmed to form attachments with others, because this will help them to survive. A child has an innate (i.e. inborn) need to attach to one main attachment figure. This is called monotropy.

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