Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Cognition, Physical Attractiveness, 3 Women

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Rachel Calogero

Document Summary

Need to affiliate: the motive to seek and maintain relationships with others. 16 items respond from strongly agree to disagree (1-4) Attachment and bonding: come to learn this with young infants and primary caregivers (developmental psych) also come to learn this with animal studies. When monkeys were followed, found aggression with other monkeys and difficulty relating and bonding impacted overall development experiment was unethical and did more harm. Attachment behaviours: behaviours an infant will exhibit to stay close to or reunite with a primary caregiver. Attachment styles: expectations that people develop about their relationships, based on relationships with carers as infants and children, early attachments alter working model of relationships. Procedure designed to observe attachment relationships between carer and child. Infant in a room and primary caregiver leaves the room: observe infant interaction with stranger, observe infant interaction when caregiver returns, observe amount of exploration infant does based on who is present, observe stranger anxiety.