CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mirror Test, Identity Formation, 18 Months
3 Nov 2016
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Forming attachments: families and caregiving lecture notes: critical question. What is the role of attachment and why is it important: emotional development. Present at birth: interest, distress, disgust and contentment. Emerge between 2 and 7 months: anger, sadness, joy, surprise, fear. In second year self- conscious emotions emerge: embarrassment, shame, guilt, envy, pride: emotional development. Behaviours and language important: emotional development. Social referencing: use others(cid:495) emotions as a guide. Participants adjust behaviours in response to partner: attachment and development. Indiscriminate attachments (6 weeks 6/7 months: theories of attachment. Mother becomes secondary reinforcer: theories of attachment, theories of attachment. Harlow and zimmerman (1959) tested feeding hypothesis. Made of wire, one covered with soft cloth, one just wire. Monkeys fed by wire surrogate, fed by cloth surrogate. Would monkeys prefer a (cid:498)mother(cid:499) who fed them or one who was soft and. Even if it was not the surrogate that fed them! Attachment must be based on more than feeding.
