Attachment Flashcards
Effects of institutionalisation
Physical underdevelopment
Intellectual under functioning
Disinhibited attachment
Poor parenting
Animal studies of attachment
Lorenz and Harlow
Lorenz study
Clutch of gosling eggs and divided them into 2 groups
One group hatched with mother and others placed in an incubator
Harlow study
Created 2 wire mothers
Eight infant mothers studied for 165 days
4 monkeys fed by cloth covered mother and 4 fed by wired monkey
Measurements were made of the time infants spent with the mothers
Observations made of the infants responses
Learning theory of attachment
Classical and operant conditioning which explains behaviour in terms of learning rather than any inborn tendencies
Monotropic theory of attachment
Bowlby
Bowlby theory AO1
Attachment figures More time spent with mother Internal working model (blueprint for future attachment) Sensitive period (3-6 weeks) Role of social releases
Bowlby AO3
Socially sensitive - pressure on mother, underestimates father and other caregivers
Research into deprivation Rutter et al
Minnesota parent child studies support hypothesis
Alternative (temperament hypothesis)