Learning theory, strengths and limitations

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Strengths

*Provides adequate explanation of how attachments form

*Supported though studied that we do learn through association and reinforcement

Limitations

*Strong psychological evidence food plays no part in attachment

*Harlow's monkey experiment shows how the monkeys chose comfort over food spending 22 hours of the day on the cloth mother and 2 on the wire for feeding

Schaffer and Emerson 1964) attached most to the people who cared for them not those that fed them

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