PSYCH 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mary Ainsworth, Attachment Theory, John Bowlby
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Attachment overview: the attachment relationship, measuring attachment. Bowlby, harlow, ainsworth: factors associated with security of attachment. Parental sensitivity: effects of attachment quality. Where did we get the idea of attachment: between 1937-1943, numerous reports of children in us and. Europe who lacked feeling for others and exhibited abnormal social behavior. By adolescence, history of stealing, violence, and sexual crimes: john bowlby. Bowlby noted that children separated from their mothers. Were listless and depressed, emotionally disturbed, had feelings of emptiness, lost of interest in life, unable to develop normal emotional attachments. Rene spitz: studied effects of deprivation of mothering, filmed infants in orphanage. Despite adequate nutrition they were sickly and developmentally retarded: orphans of felon-mothers. In 50s: adequate nutritional care is all you need for normal development little to no emphasis put on emotional care. Bowlby and spit helped to change this: caregiver-child attachment. Close, enduring emotional bond to parents or other caregiver.
