PSY 0310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Harry Harlow, Intellectual Disability, John Bowlby
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Attachment: emotional bond with a specific person that is enduring across space and time: Ex: harry harlow: rhesus monkeys removed from their mothers, given 2 substitute, 1 wire with food 1 with terry cloth and no food. Results: 1) monkeys preferred terry cloth mother even when wire mother was the only one with food. 2) these isolated monkeys when later placed with other monkeys were fearful, incapable of communicating with or learning from others. Human example: orphanage care: children raised with little social interaction: sickly and developmentally impaired. Attachment theory: john bowlby developed comprehensive view of attachment where the child uses caregiver as secure base. Foster feelings of emotional security exploration. Ex: infants preferences for human faces and human speech. Nurture: the experiences you have will shape the type and quality of the attachment. Ex: differences in attachment to wire vs. cloth mothers. 0-6 weeks: infant produces distress signals, comforted by responses regardless of who provides them.
