PSYC 4240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Maternal Deprivation, Mary Ainsworth, Survival Function

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4240
• Professor: Rosanne Menna

Document Summary

What are emotional attachments? (attachment defined): a close emotional relationship between two persons, characterized by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity (shaffer, 2009) Combination with these social interactions over time with our primary care giver (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Babies: drool, spit up, fuss, cry, dirty their diapers on a regular basis. Freud: emphasized oral gratification (provided primarily by mothers) Current view emphasized ability of caregiver to meet all of infants" needs. Innate behaviours designed to promote attachment between infants and caregivers. Attachments aren"t automatic, they form over time (not within 7 days: research shows that breastfed babies could determine which breast pad was their mothers based on smell (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Assumptions: infants are biologically biased, survival function, attachment responses, parental attachment system, biological and psychological function, internal working models. Selective: we are focused on specific individuals who elicit attachment behaviors and those would be our primary caregivers.