The Influence of Attachment Style on Memory Retrieval

Abstract

Attachment style plays an important role between our behavioral pattern and the closeness relationship. Nowadays, there are lots of studies which shown that attachment style also has an influence on the memory retrieval. However, there still lack the summary of the systematic conclusion about these. The results suggest that secure attachment individual has moderate emotion and view on memory retrieval, avoidant attachment individual adopt advance defense strategy to restrain the memory retrieval and anxious attachment individual activate the overactivation strategy to avoid the emotion expression. This essay aims to summarize the recent research and try to find out the specific connection between the attachment style and the memory retrieval. We mainly compare the attachment style, demonstrating that the different attachment style individual retrieval their memory relied on the internet working model which based on the reacting of the attachment figures to the proximity needs, meanwhile, the attachment strategy also influences the memory retrieval.