PSYC 391 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mental Model, Harry Harlow, Attachment Theory
18 Mar 2017
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Why do we care if attachment theory is inaccurate: the ethics of science, immigrant/refugee populations, understanding variability and how it works. Harry harlow: deprived monkeys of early social interactions and then looked at whether they went to a fuzzy monkey with no food or a wire monkey with food. John bowlby: coined the term attachment theory, made the case that its a long ago, evolved system that evolved within our human heritage of eea, a system/mechanism that keeps babies alive. Secure base: where the mother is the secure base where the infant can then go and see the world, establish that sense of trust and then you go see the world. Bonding to a nurturing mother, harlow and others concluded, is essential to mental health and normal development in primates, and the blueprint bond from which all other attachments are modelled. Ainsworth: developed the strange situation procedure. Used to assess infants attachment to primary caregivers.
