FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clark L. Hull, Sigmund Freud, John Bowlby
16 Oct 2017
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Impacts all aspects of development: the beginning of parenting. Attachment necessary - comfort, touch: harlow"s monkey experiment, spent 16-17 hours on cloth mother, spent 1 hour on wire mother with bottle, when scared goes to cloth mother - secure base, comfort from parent/caregiver. Bowlby: middle class, london, parents: believed too much parental affection and attention would spoil the child, spent minimal time, sent him to boarding school. In university he spent time with delinquent children, studied medicine, psychiatry, served as doctor in wwii, married w. 4 children: who commissioned bowlby to write report on mental health of homeless children. Innate mutual responsiveness and attraction between parents and infants. Infants babyishness (chubby, rolls, round, small) elicits protective responses from adults: babies crying, sucking, smiling, looking at caregiver preferentially, have net effect of orienting caregiver. Ainsworth: all infants are attached but differ in sense of security, view mothers/parents as secure base. First relationship serves as the foundation for all others.
