PSY353H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vasopressin, Release Factor, Postpartum Depression
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Most of the time its maternal care, but can also sometimes be bi-parental care, and most rare is paternal care. Attachment theory: attachment definition is from the perspective of the offspring, adults bond to younger offspring and to each other (varies in age, within the same species can use attachment and bonding interchangeably. What is parental behaviour: anything that a parent does to care for that offspring can be either pre-natal or post-natal there are limiting factors as to how much care an organism can provide. Mammalian parental behaviours: we do a variety of things, aggression is highly adaptive to be aggressive to threats to their offspring socialization and learning carries on for years. Maternal motivation: you find your offspring less aversive, mother rats will bar press rapidly to have access to their pups can manipulate with dopamine in the brain.
