HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - John Bowlby, Determinism, Ethology
7 Oct 2013
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John bowlby: looking for what was important to children after world war ii. Children lost their parents and were separated from family. Trying to find an understanding of emotional development especially during childhood. Rene spitz: children despite having everything they needed still suffered mentally and physically, emotional development depended on motherly figures, anaclitic depression. Emotional depravation due to loss of a loved object: hospitalism. If child does not have the loved object returned within 5 months child will show serious deterioration. Tinbergen and lorenz ethology, animal behaviour: behaviour can be understood by instincts, imprinting. Some birds follow the first thing they see after hatching. Imprinting affects the social and sexual responses of birds in adulthood. Tested whether reliance on mothers was based on contact or nourishment. Monkeys went to wire mother to feed but spent most of their time with the cloth mothers. Mothers were used by the monkeys as a source of safety.
