PSY 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mary Ainsworth, John Bowlby, Attachment Theory
16 Apr 2016
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Developmental theories: 3 important theories that touch on how we develop into adults socially. Most of our normal development occurs because of identifying with a parent. Argued that monkeys (and humans alike) love is beyond just fulfillment of physical needs. Monkeys care create different relationships with caregivers, based on caregivers attributes. Randomly assign monkey to wire mother (lacked a terry cloth blanket) or cloth mother (had blanket, with warmth) Harlow said monkeys reared by cloth mothers would be able to show better mating and friendships than wired mothers true. Also showed comfort was more important than fulfilling physical needs: monkeys given choice between cloth mother with no feeding or wire mother with feeding. Monkeys only went to wire mother to sustain to live, but stayed with cloth parent. Argued that love is fulfilling emotion needs. Attachment: special bonds formed with caregiver early in life, create a working model.
