Attachments AO3 Flashcards
Learning Theory Evaluation?
4
+ EVIDENCE:
~ Pavlov, Skinner
- CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE:
~ Harlow (contact comfort) - Responsiveness > Food:
~ Schaffer and Emerson suggest this.
~ Mixed evidence… - Reductionist:
~ stimuli - response; misses out nature, cognition..
~ Only observable feats considered.
NOT HOLISTIC.
Evaluation on IWM?
4
+ LONGITUDINAL STUDY:
~ Simpson: 20-23 years - correlation of attachment type and adulthood relationships/ childhood social competence.
- COUNTER EVIDENCE:
~ Zimmerman: other life events affect future relationships. - RETROSPECTIVE DATA:
~ Recollection to childhood difficult. - SOCIAL DESIRABILITY BIAS
~in Hazan and Shaver’s love quiz
Bowlby’s Monotropic Theory Evaluation?
4
+ EVIDENCE: Innate mechanisms.
~ Lorenz
+ APPLICATION:
~ Critical period; sensitivity in day-cares.
- EVIDENCE AGAINST MONOTROPY:
~ Schaffer & Emerson; only 1/2 sample formed monotropic attachment to mother. - REDUCTIONIST:
~ Child’s temperament affects future relationships too.
Institutionalisation Evaluation?
5, 2 pairs of countering evaluations
+ APPLICATION:
~ fewer caregivers, more keyworkers.
+ Longitudinal Study:
~ LT Effects
- Longitudinal Study:
~ Attrition affects validity.
+ Natural Exp:
~ High Eco validity.
- Natural Exp:
~ Extraneous variables not controlled.
Strange Situation/Types of Interactions Evaluation?
4
+ Methodology/Evidence (Scroufe):
~ Popularity at school.
- Low Eco Validity/ Evidence (Bronfenbenner)
~ Artificial: Demand characteristics - Low Int Validity: Mothers - Evaluation Apprehension
- Low Cultural Validity:
~ Ethnocentric/American Standard.
Bowlby’s Maternal Deprivation Evaluation?
4
+ EVIDENCE:
~ Robertson filmed 2yr old Lauren crying to go home from hospital.
+ APPLICATION:
~ Substitute care at hospital.
- EVIDENCE:
~ Lewis: replication with larger sample - no correlation found. - INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
~ Barrett reviewed studies - secure coped well, insecure didn’t.
Animal Studies Evaluation?
4
+ Guiton: EVIDENCE
~ Chicks + rubber glove
+ APPLICATION:
~ Harlow’s study - importance of emotional care - helps social workers w/ child abuse/neglect.
- EXTRAPOLATION:
~ humans and animals different - conscious decisions… - ETHICAL ISSUES:
~ LT psychological damage.