Animal studies of attachment Flashcards
what key study did Harlow do.
he did a study for animal imprinting where he wanted to see if imprinting is an innate process.
what method did lorenz used
he conducted a field experiment where he took large clutch of goose and divided them into two group. In condition 1 the eggs were hatched with the original mother in a natural environment and in condition 2 the eggs were hatched in a incubator with lorenz and they were recorded as well ad lorenz also imprinted a mother duck quack sound to make sure imprinting had took place. then he put all the goslings together in a box and allowed them to mix.
what were the finding of the lorenz study.
when the box was removed the goslings followed the mother who they were first exposed to. Which shows the critical period to form attachment if 12-13 hours of the birth of the infant.
what was the conclusion for lorenz study.
the conclusion was that imprinting does take place after the hatching had Benn done but instead it takes time ( known as the critical period to developed attachment ) and attachment also doesn’t take place by feeding and if the attachment hasn’t occurred within the first 32 hours then attachment can never take place.
what was Harlow’s aim of the study and what was it.
Harlow did a contact comfort study where his aim was to see if it plays an important role in the development of attachment.
what was harlow study method
is that he used an experimental method and he used rehsus babies monkeys. in the crucial study they were separated from their mothers form an early age age after the birth and they were isolated. 16 of them took pace in the study.
what were the 4 conditions of the study
1- A cage containing a wire mother producing milk and a cloth mother producing no milk.
2 cloth mother producing milk and the wire mother producing no milk.
3- wire mother producing milk
4- cage coating a cloth mother producing milk.
the rehsus babies monkey were also expose to fear condition ( Scare machanical animal to see if the monkey would go to their perspective mother for comfort.
what were the findings of harlow’s study.
it was found that the bay rehsus monkey went to mother cloth and spent most of the time with her and only went to the wire mother for milk when they were hungry and came back to the cloth mother fate being feed. even for the fear condition the bays went to the cloth mother for his safe base.
what was the conclusion of Harlow’s study
is that attachment isn’t formed due to being feed but it’s formed where the in fact feels the contact comfort.
