Mother Doesnt Need To Be Primary Care Giver

Question 1

What are the main points?

Answer 1

Feeding
Freud’s views
Deprivation damage
Mothers not fathers

Question 2

What did people in the 1950 think about feeding?

Answer 2

Infants were classically conditioned to associate their mothers with a sense of pleasure

Question 3

What did Harry Harlow’s study do?

Answer 3

Showed that when given a choice (between a forged mother for comfort or a wired mother for food) an infant monkey would spend most of its time with the felted mother especially when frightened

Question 4

What did Schaffer and Emerson do?

Answer 4

Found that primary attachments were not formed with a person who fed or spent more time with the infant but with the person who responded quickly and sensitively to their ‘signals’ and who offered the child the most interaction

Question 5

What’s the problem with Freud’s views

Answer 5

Out of date, woman didn’t even have the right to vote back then

Question 6

Did Freud recognise the importance of the role of the father?

Answer 6

Yes as strength along with the eh need of a father in a boy’s development (Oedipus complex

Question 7

What did Bowlby mean when he said ‘maternal’ in the maternal deprivation hypothesis

Answer 7

Mothering is not exclusive to a mother so technically can be a father

Question 8

What can be proven with bowbly’s study?

Answer 8

Very few children had problems later in life with early separation so those who coped better may have been better attached to their mothers (or substitute£ in the first place thus more resilient

Question 9

There’s plenty of evidence to prove that men are quite capable of forming close attachments to children. What does this prove?

Answer 9

The view that men are not emotional is outdated and women are not the only parent who becomes hormonal adapted to parenthood

Question 10

What does Getter suggest

Answer 10

That a father’s testosterone levels drop in order to help a man respond more sensitively to his children’s needs