PSY 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Blurton, Ethology, John Bowlby
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In the mid-twentieth century, the work of two nobel prize winning zoologists, Lorenz and tinbergen, was highly influential in understanding animal behavior and subsequently human development (lorenz, 1981; tinbergen, 1973) The ethologists examined innate behaviors (instincts) that suit animals for survival, analyzing them in both the natural and laboratory environments. Imprinting is a simple example of the interactions between the genes and the world at work. Such ethological principles affected early parent-child relationships among researchers, such as bowlby (see part5) and hindi. For example, bowlby"s highly influential attachment work derived from findings that troubled adolescents had damaged early childhood relationships; this core field of research would not have existed if it relied solely on established theory to guide it. Blurton jones (1972), a former tinbergen student, was especially influential in promoting the use of ethological approaches to provide accurate explanations of child behaviour.
