PSYC21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prefrontal Cortex, Harry Harlow, John Bowlby
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Attachment: a strong emotional bond that forms between infant and caregiver in the second half of the child"s first year. Infants attached to mother because thy associated he with gratification of their instinctual drive to obtain pleasure through sucking and oral stimulation. Attached to the mother breast first than the mother herself in the oral stage. Drive-reduction learning theories suggest that the mother becomes attachment object because she reduces the baby"s primary drive of hunger wanting the mother there becomes secondary because she is paired with the relief of hunger. Harry harlow and attachment rhesus monkeys rebutted. Operant-conditioning learning theorists suggested that the basis of development of attachment is not feeding, per se, but the visual, auditory, and tactile stimulation that infants receive from their caregivers. Infants ability to differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar ppl; another is the infants awareness that ppl continue to exist even when they cannot be seen.
