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Attachment overview
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- 1Identify three points relating to classical conditioning on how it can explain attachmentLearning through association
UCS produces unconditioned reflex
Food UCS makes dog salivate - 2What is operant conditioning?Learning occurs when we are rewarded or punished for a desirable or undesirable action
- 3Evaluate Learning TheoryContact comfort more important than food- Harlow
Adequate explanation of how attachments form
Human studies challenge importance of food- Schaffer and Emerson - 4What is Bowlby's Theory? (7 points)1.Attachment is adaptive and innate
2. Critical period
3. Social releasers
4. Secure base
5. Monotrophy and hierarchy
6. Internal working model
7. Continuity hypothesis - 5Strengths of Bowlby's theoryImprinting in non-human animals- Lorenz
Sensitive period- Hodges and Tizard
Universality- Tronick et al.
Monotropy and hierarchy- Tronick et al; Schaffer and Emerson; Blum
Caregiver sensitivity- Schaffer and Emerson; Harlow and Carlson
Continuity- Sroufe et al - 6Weaknesses of BowlbyMultiple attachments- Rutter and Grosmann and Grosmann
Temperment hypothesis - 7Explain Ainsworth's study into attachment1. Parent and child play
2. Parent sits while child plays
3. Stranger enters
4. Parent leaves, stranger comforts.
5. Parent returns, stranger leaves
6. Parent leaves child aone
7. Stranger enters
8. Parent returns - 8What behaviour is studied in Ainsworth's study?Secure base
Stranger anxiety
Separation anxiety
Reunion behaviour
Separation anxiety
Stranger anxiety
Reunion behaviour - 9Describe and explain the three types of attachmentSecure attachment- Normal type, harmonious cooperative relationship
Insecure-avoidant - avoid social interactions, avoids contacts.
Insecure- resistant - Want contact, then become angry and avoid contact.
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