EDHD 411 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Bowlby, Longitudinal Study, Meta-Analysis

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Infants begin to show preferential behaviors toward the primary caregiver (e. g. , smiling, approaching: smiling a particularly early signal (~6 weeks) Both psychoanalytic and behaviorist perspectives emphasized the importance of feeding. Basic theory: the caregiver acquires positive value by being repeatedly paired with food, the infant begins to seek the caregiver even when not hungry, feeding is not enough. Rene spitz: psychoanalyst who had worked with freud. These infants were properly fed and received good health care, but there was little emphasis on emotional caregiving. Consequences: infants were generally physically and developmentally retarded, 37% of infants died over two years. We"ll come back to orphanage cases study when we talk about long-term consequences. Monday, march 27, 2017 of early deprivation: harlow"s monkey studies. Monkeys reared in isolation with two surrogate mothers: wire mother: provided food but no contact comfort , cloth mother: provided contact comfort but no food.

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