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This Attachment notes page gathers user-made Psychology notes on learning theory, cultural variations and deprivation. It supports school students practising explanations and evaluations, and teachers looking for lesson material. There are over 90 notes from more than 50 users, mostly at school level with some university-level material. Choose a note to start revising.
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Attachment 16-marker Plans (AQA A Level Psychology) Caregiver-infant interactions Outline Social interactions between a caregiver and infant affects the development of the attachment Reciprocity From birth: babies and caregiver spend time having intense ple...
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Outline the learning theory explanation of attachment (6 marks) AO1 Only Learning theory, which is also known as behaviourist theory, suggests that attachment is a by-product of feeding infants and that behaviour is not innate but learned. This learning can be an outcome of an ass...
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Bowlby (1944) Forty-four juvenile thieves: their characters and home-life. Bowlby (1944) Forty-four juvenile thieves: their characters and home-life.Example exam questions: Describe the methodology and procedures [of the study] (10 marks) Describe the findings + conclusions [of the study] (1...
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Cultural Variations of Attachment Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg: They conducted a study to look at the proportions of secure, insecure-resistant and insecure-avoidant attachments across a range of countries. They also looked at the differences within the...
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Outline and Evaluate the Learning Theory as an Explanation for Attachment Outline and Evaluate the Learning Theory of Attachment The learning theory, firstly proposed by Dolland Miller (1950) argues that attachment is a form of nurture and so is learnt. Behaviourists came up with the idea t...
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Outline and evaluate the learning theory of attachment (12 marks) Outline and Evaluate the learning theory of attachment (12 marks)The learning theory of attachment suggests that attachment is learnt. This can happen through classical conditioning or operant conditioning. In classic...
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Attachment- Researchers (AQA A Level Psychology) The following table is comprised of the Attachment topics (caregiver interactions, attachment figures, stages of attachment, animal studies, the learning theory, Bowlby's theory for attachment, the Strange Situation, ...
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Attachment - PSYA1 ATTACHMENT 1. Outline Bowlby’s theory of attachment Bowlby suggests that attachment is innate and caregiving traits are passed down through evolution. Children give out ‘social releasers’ such as smiling, crying and l...
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Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation Procedure AO1Ainsworth and Bell (1971) conducted a controlled observation recording the reactions of a child and its mother (caregiver), who were introduced to a strange room with toys. In the Strange Situation, about...
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Animal Studies of Attachment Harlow AO1Harlow wanted to study the mechanisms by which newborn rhesus monkeys bond with their mothers.These infants were highly dependent on their mothers for nutrition, protection, comfort and socialisation. What, ...
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Psychology attachment research and evaluations Classical conditioning (Pavlov)Procedure: Recorded how much dogs salivated each time they were fed.Results: They started to salivate before they were fed; as soon as they heard the door. They had begun to associate th...
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Developmental - Psychologists UNIT 1: DevelopmentalExplanations of attachment – · Harlow (1959) · Schaffer & Emerson (1964) · &n...
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Explanations of Attachment Learning Theory AO1Dollard & Miller (1950) state attachment is a learned behaviour that is acquired through both classical and operant conditioning. It is a nurture theory. According to classical conditioning, food (u...
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Explanations of attachment - Monotropic Theory Bowlby's Monotropic Theory:Bowlby rejected the learning theory as an explanation for attachment because 'if it were true, an infant of a year or two should take readily to whomever feeds them and this is clearly not t...
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The Influence of Early Attachment on Childhood and Adult Relationships According to Bowlby(1969) later relationships are likely to be a continuation of early attachment styles (secure and insecure) because the behaviour of the infant's primary attachment figure promotes an internal worki...
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Maternal Deprivation Bowlby proposed a theory of maternal deprivation that focused on the idea that the continual presence of nurture from a mother/mother substitute is essential for normal psychological development of babies and toddlers...
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Learning Theory Learning Theory introduction. According to behaviourists, behaviour is learnt, not innate. There two types of conditioning to the learning theory - Classical and Operant. Classical learning through asoiciation while O...
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Ainsworth's Strange Situation Ainsworth's Strange Situation: A controlled observation procedure designed to measure the security of attachment a child displays towards a caregiver Took place in a room with controlled conditions and a two-way mirro...
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Early Attachments and Later Relationships The internal working model plays a role in our later relationships. If a child has a loving relationship with a reliable caregiver they will assume this is how relationships are meant to be and so will seek out simila...
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Attachment - Infant caregiver interactions Paragraph 1 - Reciprocity infants coordinate actions with caregivers in a kind of conversation taking turns brazleton - important percusor to later communications allows caregiver to anticipate infants behaviour and r...
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Measuring attachments ROOTS OF ATTACHMENT THEORY : Bowlby believed that the attachments made by an infant throughout early stages of its life would affect later attachments and behaviours. From this attachment figure which is used as a saf...
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Attachment Role of the Father (WIR) Role of the Father What I Remember (WIR)The father has possible role as secondary care giver as mother is PCG. Recent studies, however, have shown fathers are capable of being a PCG. They are ...
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Plan for Outline and evaluate the theories of attachment (12 marks) Learning theory of attachment Evolutionary theory of attachment Outline:Classical conditioning association unconditioned stimulus unconditioned response neutral stimuli conditioned stimulus conditioned response Operan...
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Mediating factors that alter the effects of privation Quality of care during. Dontas et al 1985 15 babies aged 7-9 months 1 member of staff to attach to. 2 weeks after were visited at new homes found attachments had begun to form.
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The notes offer different ways into the unit. Some focus on explanations, including learning theory and Bowlby's theory. Others cover cultural variations, deprivation, day care and the Strange Situation. There are also notes on caregiver-infant interactions and a glossary of attachment terms.
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