Flashcards
Animal studies into research
Cards in this deck (9)
- 1Procedure of Lorenz's study-Collected a small group of goose eggs and split them into two conditions.
Condition 1= eggs were hatched naturally with their mother
Condition 2= eggs were hatched in an incubator with the presence of Lorenz. - 2Findings of Lorenz's study-Found that the geese in the controlled condition followed Lorenz whereas the geese in the natural condition followed their mother.
-Lorenz believed this attachment had to happen during a critical period.
-Also conducted a study where a peacock was hatched in the presence of a group of tortoises where sexual imprinting happened in the same way as the imprinting of the goose eggs. - 3Strength of Lorenz's study-Research support
-A study was conducted where baby chicks were exposed to moving shapes and found the chicks followed the moving shapes.
-Therefore, this supports Lorenz's idea as it suggests all infants have an innate sense to attach or imprint on the first moving thing they see. - 4A limitation of Lorenz''s study-May be inappropriate to use as evidence for human attachment.
-Birds are extremely different to humans as human attachment focuses more on interactional synchrony and reciprocity.
-Therefore, Lorenz's study lacks generalisabilty to human attachment. - 5Procedure of Harlow's study-Conducted a study of with sixteen baby monkeys and placed them into two conditions, with a monkey made from wire or made from cloth.
First conditon= monkeys fed by wired mother
Second condition= monkeys fed by clothed mother. - 6Findings of Harlows study-When scared, the monkeys sought comfort rather than food which suggests that infants also prefer comfort over food.
-Identified a critical period of ninety days where an attachment must form, any time out of this may become harder.
-Further found that monkeys in this experiment did not socially develop normally and led to problems with attaching to their children. - 7Conclusion of Harlows study- Suggests theres a long-term importance of caregiver- infant attachment with their children and the effects maternal deprivation can bare.
- 8Strength of Harlows study-Real world applications
-Can be used for social workers to understand the signs of child abuse and can also help in zoos with preventing the long-term effects on maternally deprived animals.
-Therefore, Harlow's study is useful as it has value to animals and human attachments in real life. - 9Limitation of Harlows study-Ethical issues
-The monkeys became highly distressed and didn't socially develop due to this study. Should assume that monkeys feel the same way as humans without the presence of a caregiver.
-However some say it's justified due to the important insight into attachment.
-Therefore, eventhough Harlows study has ethical issues due to no protection from harm, it can be justified.
Information
- Description
- A-levels psychology Flashcards on Animal studies into research, created by Lily-mae Hudson on 25/02/2025.
- Created by
- Lily-mae Hudson · Feb 2025
- Updated
- Feb 25, 2025
- Views
- 0
- Rating
More on Animal studies of attachment