PSYCH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Bowlby, Milk Bottle, Rhesus Macaque
18 Jan 2017
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Humans are a social species: humans work and live in groups. Families, band structure, ad hoc hunting or gathering groups. Modern life human groups of many kinds. Families, friends, work groups, national groups, identity groups. Our first experience in groups is with our family (race, gender, religion: close attachments with care-givers set up our emotional networks for trust, empathy, and social connection, researchers view on nurturance have changed greatly. A historical derogation of the role of emotion. A recent understanding of the biological basis of soft ideas of nurturing, What was the science of child-rearing 50 years ago? love, sympathy, trust: two major streams of scholarships dominated psychological approaches to child- rearing. Psychoanalysis (freudian theory: both stressed the dangers of the irrational; parental emotions of love and warmth and the overindulgence of children with affection. A behaviorist view of child rearing: look at the slide with watson"s quote.
