Kagan

Kagan

1. Rejects the idea that attachment is a response to sensitivity

   • Due instead to babies innate temperament
     • Inhibited
     • Uninhibited
     • Type of attachment formed would depend on the child's temperament
       • This is known as the Temperament Hypothesis

2. "Temperament refers to stable behavioural and emotional reactions that appear early and are influenced in part by genetic constitution

3. Developed in response to Ainsworth's maternal Sensitivity Hypothesis

4. Evidence to support

   • Belsky and Rovine (1987) found that infants that have behavioural instability at birth are less likely to form secure attachments