Animal Research On Attachment

Question 1

What is attachment?

Answer 1

The strong affectional ties that bind a person to intimate companion.

Question 2

What are the signs of attachment?

Answer 2

-Seeking proximity
-Distress on separation
-Joy on reunion
-General orientation towards each other.

Question 3

What was Lorenz interested in?

Answer 3

How young animals attach to mothers and how this increases their survival.

Question 4

What was the procedure of Lorenz?

Answer 4

-Separated two sets of geese.
-Half went to mother and half went to him.

Question 5

What was the results and conclusion of Lorenz?

Answer 5

-Critical period of 32 hours in geese.
-Geese followed whoever they had imprinted on (researcher or mother).

Question 6

What was Harlow’s study?

Answer 6

-Put monkeys with a cloth mother who gave comfort and mesh mother who gave food.
-Monkeys went to cloth mother for comfort.
-Only went to other machine for food and came back.

Question 7

What did Harlow find about monkey’s in isolation?

Answer 7

-They would clutch their own bodies and rock compulsively.
-Couldn’t socialise well and became aggressive with other monkeys.
-Found privation caused them to become socially maladjusted.