Learning Theory

Question 1

What is classical condition

Answer 1

Caregiver (NS) associated with food (UCS)

Caregiver becomes the (CS)

Question 2

What is Operant conditioning

Answer 2

Crying behaviour is reinforced positively for baby and negatively for caregiver

Question 3

How does attachment become a secondary drive

Answer 3

Through association with hunger

Question 4

What counter evidence from animal studies disprove this theory

Answer 4

Lorenz and Harlow showed that feeding is not the key to attachment

Question 5

What counter evidence form human studies disprove this theory

Answer 5

Primary attachment figure isn’t always the person doing the feeding (Schaffer and Emerson)

Quality of attachment is down to international synchrony not feeding (Isabella et al)

Question 6

How have studies shown that there may be some conditioning involved

Answer 6

Conditioning through association with comfort may influence the choice of primary attachment figure

Question 7

What did Fieldmqn and Eidleman find that disproves that some conditioning may be involved

Answer 7

Babies are more active in attachment than conditioning suggest