PSY 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ethology, Social Change, Mary Ainsworth
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Infants" demands are centered on care and affection, not biological needs. Necessary for personality development: good infant-caregiver relations. > a trusting, autonomous child: bad infant-caregiver relations. Innate behavioural sequences are set in motion by a particular stimuli. Infants are biologically programmed to emit certain behaviours to ensure they receive care-giving activity. 4 phases in the development of attachment: no attachment. 0 month(s) - 5 months: start of attachment; smiles, comfort. 5 months - 7 months: separation protest; 7 months - 3 years: goal-corrected partnership. Bond between caregiver and infant (ainsworth 1913 - 1999) (mary ainsworth: a student of bowlsby) Infant displays preference for caregiver from an early start. > reveal: attachment: infants try to follow their own mother when she leaves, infants are distressed when she is gone, upon the mother"s return, infants display feeling of relief (and might cuddle). A stranger is present in the mother"s absence.
