PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Middle Class, 18 Months, Harry Harlow
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Close emotional bond with specific person across space and time. Institutionalized children led to understanding of the importance of parent-children interaction in development. Attachment is a concept that explains our behaviour. What we learn early in life in our close relationship is reflected in our relationships later on, it influences us. Leaves his mother"s side when she holds him: cuddled into mother after a brief struggle. John tries to leave his mother when his father came: when john looks directly at his mother, he looks at her with disdain, exhibits signs of depression. 1959 looked at young monkeys to see how attachments develop: used windup toy to scare the monkeys and see how monkeys would react, monkey ran away to the mother figure. Prolonged separation between child and mother between the first 5 years plays the biggest role in delinquency in youth. Children are biological predisposed to develop attachment with caregivers.
