Developmental Psychology:Attachment

Developmental Psychology:Attachment

1. Theories of attachment

   • Dollard and Miller's Learning theory of Attachment
     • Classical Conditioning
       • learn through association
         • infants gain pleasure from being fed
           • food : the unconditioned stimulus
           • pleasure: the unconditioned response
           • When the caregiver feeds the infant, they begin to associate them with the pleasure of being fed. This person is usually the mother (the neutral stimuli)
             • Attachment is formed on the basis of the infant seeking the person who brings about this pleasure
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     • Operant conditioning
   • Bowlby's evolutionary theory of attachment

2. Attachment is the emotional bond between people or animals, generally between a mother and her child, which is reciprocal and long-lasting