Plan for Outline and evaluate the theories of attachment (12 marks)

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Learning theory of attachment

Evolutionary theory of attachment

Outline:

Classical conditioning

association

unconditioned stimulus

unconditioned response

neutral stimuli

conditioned stimulus

conditioned response

Operant conditioning

reward

reinforcement

cupboard love theory

food

Dollard and Miller

Evaluate:

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Harlow's Origin of Love study

Shaffer and Emerson

Outline:

Bowlby

adaptive

innate

biologically pre-programmed

aids survival reproduction

monotropy

continuity hypothesis

internal working model

social releasers

Evaluate:

Strengths:

real life application

Konrad Lorenz

Weaknesses:

Multiple Attachments

Temperment Hypothesis

Shaffer and Emerson

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