AQA A-Level Psychology: Attachment
6 exam-style questions with full mark schemes and model answers. Write your own answer and the AI examiner marks it against the mark scheme.
Discuss Bowlby's monotropic theory of attachment. Refer to learning theory as an alternative explanation in your answer. [16 marks]
Outline and evaluate Ainsworth's Strange Situation as a method of assessing attachment type. [8 marks]
Outline the stages of attachment identified by Schaffer and Emerson. [6 marks]
Read the item below and then answer the question that follows.
A nursery worker watches two toddlers, Aimee and Ben, while their mothers are present and then briefly leave the room. Aimee plays happily and keeps looking back at her mother, becomes upset when her mother leaves, and is quickly comforted and settles when her mother returns. Ben plays on his own and barely reacts when his mother leaves; when she comes back he ignores her and carries on playing alone.
Using your knowledge of attachment types, explain the behaviour of Aimee and Ben. [6 marks]
Outline two caregiver-infant interactions involved in the development of attachment. [4 marks]
Explain one limitation of using Lorenz's research on imprinting to understand human attachment. [4 marks]