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Learning Theory Evaluation?

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+ 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.
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Evaluation on IWM?

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+ 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
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Bowlby’s Monotropic Theory Evaluation?

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+ 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.
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Institutionalisation Evaluation?

5, 2 pairs of countering evaluations

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+ 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.
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Strange Situation/Types of Interactions Evaluation?

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+ 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.
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Bowlby’s Maternal Deprivation Evaluation?

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+ 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.
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Animal Studies Evaluation?

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+ 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.
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