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Outline two explanations of attachment and evaluate their ability to explain attachment
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Outline two explanations of attachment and evaluate their ability to explain attachment. One explanation of attachment was the psychoanalytic approach developed by Freud. He suggested that attachment was based on food and described children being born with an innate drive for pleasure, which he referred to as the pleasure principle. The idea was that everyone was motivated by this principle and that we demand immediate satisfaction. In infancy the pleasure is fulfilled through oral satisfaction or feeding. Freud then suggested that as an infant, you form a strong attachment with the person who provides you with the food. This implies that all attachments in infancy are explained by feeding and nothing else and may even suggest that a child isn't specifically attached to its mother. This is strong evidence to suggest that attachment in childhood is driven by the demands for food and oral satisfaction. However, this approach is unfalsifiable. The ideas...
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