Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Developmental Psychology, Terrycloth, John Bowlby

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: hessels

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Monday, november 27, 2017 developmental psychology social development in infancy part 2 (attachment) Attachment: strong emotional bond between infant and caregiver, bi-directional interaction, dyadic synchony. Style of interaction develops between a particular infant and caregiver. Caregiver reads the infants signals (crying, eye signals, smile, make noises, etc) Murray & trevarthen (1985: origins of attachment; Learning theory: primary and secondary reinforcers, getting rewards, have attachments due to primary reinforcers (infants) Cognitive developmental theory: object permanence, infant must have understanding that something exists (person) even when its gone [not around] Ethological theory (john bowlby : protection and environmental competence, main reason for attachment is due to protection caregiver will protect the infant, harlow & zimmerman (1959) Monkeys reared with terry-cloth surrogate mother" and wire mesh surrogate mother". Monkeys preferred the cloth mother even when the wire mesh mother had a. Monday, november 27, 2017 bottle of milk: developmental changes in attachment (bowlby)