PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mental Model, Mary Ainsworth, 18 Months

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500
• Professor: Anne Bowker

Document Summary

Innate responses viewed as social gestures-the sucking, the grabbing, and the ability to interact in synchrony. Attachment is affected when baby is hard to soothe (i. e. if they are born prematurely). Some caregivers are hard to attach depressedmoms have difficulty bonding with their children. Young children, without a secure attachment, had significant developmental difficulties. Saw infants as competence-motivated, using the primary caregiver as a secure base: secure base: something they can return to when they feel stressed. Psychoanalytic (freud: attachment from oral activities, being fed, the mothers responsiveness to the child"s hunger. Learning (harlow: feeding vs contact comfort, monkeys preferred cloth monkeys regardless who they receive food from. Warmth and contact comfort is more important to the development of attachment than feeding. Cognitive-development (piaget: depends on level of cognitive development, object permanence, to discriminate non-familiar to familiar people, attachment appears to show 7-9 months, and that"s around the time the child develops object permanence.