Attachment

Attachment

1. Explanations of Attachments

   • Bowlby's Theory
   • Learning Theory
     • All Behaviour is learned
       • classical conditioning
         • learning through association. Ivan Pavlov looked at the salivation of dogs. They learned through the association of the bell and food. Babies get pleasure from food and then associate this pleasure with their caregiver as they are the one who always provided the food.
       • Operant conditioning
         • used by behaviourists. doing something can result in reinforcement or punishment. Either way, we learn from our actions and whether to do it again. Dollard and miller said that a baby will cry when it is hungry because it knows that it will receive food through crying. The food is the primary reinforcer then with the caregiver being the secondary reinforcer.