ATTACHMENT : LORENZ ANIMAL STUDIES

Question 1

What was Lorenz’s procedure

Answer 1

classical experiment

divided large group of goose eggs

half hatched with the mother goose in a natural environment

other half hatched with Lorenz in an incubator

Question 2

of those that hatched in teh incubator who was teh first moving object they saw

Answer 2

lorenz

Question 3

Findings

Answer 3

incubator group followed Lorenz

control group followed mother

when mixed up the group that saw first moving object be mother followed her and vice versa

Question 4

What is Imprinting

Answer 4

bird species that are mobile from birth follow and attach to first moving object they see

Question 5

What is the critical period for attachment to take place identified by Lorenz

Answer 5

depending on the species a few hours after birth/hatching

Question 6

What happened if imprinting didn’t occur a few hours after birth

Answer 6

chicks didnt’t attach themselves to a mother figure

Question 7

What did Lorenz also investigate

Answer 7

relationship between imprinting nd adult mate preferences

Question 8

What did he observe about sexual imprinting

Answer 8

birds that imprinted on humans displayed courtship behaviour towards them

Question 9

Let’s say a peacock was born into a zoo and teh first moving object she saw was ginat tortoises and only directs courtship behviour t giant tortoises we say she has undergone

Answer 9

sexual imprinting

Question 10

WHAT ANIMALS did harlow study

Answer 10

Rhesus Monkeys

Question 11

Why is it important he worked with rhesus monkeys

Answer 11

more simmilar to humans than lorenz’s birds

Question 12

What did Harlow observe about contact comfort

Answer 12

newborns left alone in a bare cage died but survived if given something soft like a cloth to cuddle

Question 13

what IDEA did harlow test

Answer 13

idea soft object serves some fucntions of a mother

Question 14

outline harlow procedure

Answer 14

reared 16 babe monkeys
2 wire mothers
C1 - milk dispensed by plain wire madre
C2 - cloth covered madre dispensed milk

Question 15

Findinfs of harlow

Answer 15

monkeys cuddled cloth covered mum as opposed to plain wire mothers

sought comfort from cloth wehn scared (noisy emchanical teddy)
regardless who dispensed

Question 16

ehat did harlows research sho

Answer 16

contact comfot more important than food

when it cam to attachment behaviour

Question 17

t/f harlow followed monkeys who had been deprived of real mothers into adulthood

Answer 17

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Question 18

why did harlow et al follow monkeys into adulthood

Answer 18

see if early maternal deprivation had a permanent effect

Question 19

what did researchers find when they followe monks to adulthood

Answer 19

monkeys reared w plain wired mothers only - most dysfunctional

even monkeys reared with cloth covered mother didn’t develop normal social behaviour

deprived monkeys more aggressive
less socialbl
bred less - due to lack of mating skils

when becam mom neglected kids and even killed them

Question 20

what was criticla period for attachment in monkey

Answer 20

mother must introduced to monkey in 90 dyas if attachemnt is to form

Question 21

what happens after 90 dyas

Answer 21

attachment impossible

dmaage by early deprivation became irreversible