FMST 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Limbic System, Behaviorism, Ethology
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Chapter 6: attachment theory and research (1 of 2: introduction to attachment theory: insights from two videos. In class documentary: for the love of elephants http://www. cbc. ca/video/#/shows/the_nature_of_things/1242300217/id=1616341924. Startle easily, can"t settle (post-traumatic stress disorder neurological limbic system) Memory (enabling the attachment to specific people) Background information on john bowlby (1907-1990) relevant to attachment theory: bowlby"s childhood, bowlby"s father. A renowned surgeon who worked on the front lines during world war i (wwi) to treat injured soldiers. Of his father, bowlby described him as remote and inaccessible: bowlby"s mother. Was neither physically nor emotionally available to any of her six children; the children saw their mother for only an hour a day, after tea, during which time she read to them. Of his mother, bowlby (1958) stated she held the view that it was dangerous to spoil children so her responses to bids for attention and affection were the opposite of what was required .
