PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Bowlby, Ethology, Intentionality
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Production of separation distress individual: there is a protest (crying, there is communication when then the child is not as close as it wants to be to an. They also don"t have the physical ability to try to be close to you. 7-24 months clear cut attachment separation protest, fear of strangers, intentionality: when the child shows fear of strangers we can see that the child can tell the difference between individuals now this is highly adaptive. This is very healthy: child had the perceptual ability to discriminate and the cognitive ability to, intentionality certainly seeing these types of behaviours, like reaching, associate ideas with people signalling behaviour, clinging, following. We set a goal and we maintain it. We try to keep it at a consistent level or compensate if it gets too low or too high: internal working model (symbolic mental representations to guide child"s behaviour which includes emotional and cognitive components)
