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Explanations of Attachment
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Mind Map on Explanations of Attachment, created by Naima Shah on 11/10/2015.
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Explanations of Attachment
Learning Theory
Children learn to become attached because caregiver gives them food "cupboard love"
Can be due to associations made from stimuli (classical conditioning) or patterns of reinforcement and punishment (operant conditioning)
Classical conditioning
neutral/unconditioned/ conditioned stimulus
Unconditioned/conditioned response
Operant conditioning
Dollard and Miller - hungry infant reducing discomfort
Primary/secondary reinforcers
two types of conditioning combined
will produce desirable responses and associate the caregiver with feelings of pleasure
Shaffer & Emerson found fewer than 1/2 of infants had a primary attachment- they fed them
Harlow's research feeding < contact comfort
Lorenz's geese imprinted before feeding and maintained regardless of who fed them
Hay and Vespo suggest attachment can be explained by SLT- due to imitation and modelling
other factors such as reciprocity, interaction synchrony and sensitive responsiveness
Positive/negative reinforcement
Bowlby's mono tropic theory/internal working model
Bowlby opposes learning theory (nurture) argues it's inherited (nature)
result of evolution, adaptive
chid helpless at birth, adult care-close to mother helps it to survive
Main features: attachment is adaptive - ensures safety
Innate social releasers-born with releasers e.g. crying, smiling
Critical period- attachment should take place, amended to sensitive period of 3year occur after 1year
monotropy- one special attachment needed, could be mother
Law of continuity: >constant and predictable care > attachment
Law of accumulated separation- effects of every separation add up/better to have none
Internal working model- set of conscious/unconscious rules re relationships with others
attachments in early life affect later relationships, support from Hasan and Shaver
Evaluation of Bowlby
adoption agencies place infant asap to max attachement
Hodges and Tizard criticises critical period, can be up to 7 years
Shaffer and Emerson criticised monotropy- children can develop more than one attachment
Personality may affect attachments
Shaffer- no. of attachments bring psychological advantages
Bowl by suggests mother should be main carer
Dunn- internal working too general
Child picks carer on best communicator not time spent
Brazelton- ignore social releasers
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