PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Harry Harlow, Scrotum, Reinforcement
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Humans have gotten as far as we have because we are intensely social animals, we want relationships, we need to feel like we are loved, and we gain power through connections. This desire for social relations is present at birth, and is bi-directional, as represented both by maternal instincts and via specific behaviours emitted by the infant. Sucking is both for food and for comfort, cuddling is comfort and seems to signal security (harlow"s work), looking initiate interactions, smiling is the best reward of parenting (5 weeks) and crying is teaching parents through negative reinforcement. Konrad lorenz discovered newly hatched gosling will faithfully follow the first moving object to which it is exposed. The first moving object a hatchling saw was somehow imprinted on its bird brain as the thing i must always stay near. Psychiatrist john bowlby sought to understand how human infants form attachments to their caregivers.
