PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reinforcement
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Sucking both for food or for comfort. Cuddling comfort seems to signal security (harlow"s work) Looking eye to eye contact to initiate interactions. Smiling the best reward of parenting? (5 weeks) Attachment is the lifelong emotional bond that exists between the infants and their mothers or other caregivers, formed during the first six months of life. Example of harry harlow"s experiment with the monkey"s. Half of the monkeys received their nourishment from a milk dispenser in the wire and half from a dispenser in the terry cloth mother. All of the monkeys preferred the cloth monkey regardless of which monkey provided their nourishment. The monkeys being fed by the wire mother would only go to the wire mother to eat and then return to the cloth mother. Insecure-avoidant attachment is indicated by exploration, but minimal interest in the mother, the infant showing little distress when the mother leaves, and avoiding her when she returns.
