Attatchmet

Attatchmet

1. Lorenz - 1935

   • Imprinting
     • identified a critical period
       • A03
         • difficulty in generalising findings
           • Anthropomorphism
         • Sluckin (1966) questioned critical period

2. Harlow 1959

   • Cupboard love theory
   • comfort vs food
   • 16 baby rhesus monkey
   • baby monkey preferred cloth mother even though it did not provide milk
   • A03
     • highly valued research - practical applications
     • Ethical issues
     • conducted on monkeys - difficult to generalise

3. Learning theory

   • Attatchment by classical conditioning
     • The infant learns to associate the primary caregiver (usually the mother) with food
   • operant conditioning
     • reinforcement produces an a attatchment
   • A03
     • oversimplified
     • learning theory is heavily criticised