The Learning Theory

Question 1

In LT is attachment a primary drive?

Answer 1

No In LT attachment is a secondary drive

Question 2

What do LT say that the primary drive is?

Answer 2

LT claim that hunger is a primary drive and attachment is secondary drive

Question 3

How does classical conditioning work?

Answer 3

UCS = UCR
Food = pleasure

NS = No change
Mum = in baby

UCR + NS = UCR
FOOD + MUM = pleasure

MUM = PLEASURE

THE mum is now able to give a conditioned response
As the child sees the mother as someone who gives pleasure to her.

Question 4

AO3 : Lorenz and Harlow findings

Answer 4

They both found that attachment is formed because of comfort and imprinting onto the animal not due to feeding the animal
Contact comfort more important than food

Question 5

AO3 : schaffer andEmerson study

Answer 5

They found that babies were still mostly attached to their mother even though most cases the mothers were not the ones that fed the baby this disproves the learning theory

Question 6

A03 reductionistic approach

Answer 6

The learning theory ignores all the other factors such as reciprocity and interactional synchrony are not taken into account
a limitation because it doesn’t consider these factors and so it is suggesting that these factors are not true but actually these factors are the theory isn’t