PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Mary Ainsworth, Konrad Lorenz, Attachment Theory
12 Jun 2013
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Studying fitness enhancing behaviours that are enhanced by natural selection. Imprinting: newly hatched chicks will imprint on their mother ensuring that they constantly follow her around. Follow the first thing that you see moving. Contribution of biological needs (food) vs. social needs (comfort) Manipulates which is the source of food. Prediction: because food is the primary need they would prefer to spend time with the mother who provided food. Experiments reveal that the infants prefer to spend their time with the cloth mother (comfort) and would only go to the wire mother to feed. Put in a new cage with comfort mother they would explore. Raise monkeys exclusively with either the wire mother or cloth mother. Wire mothers had physical, emotional and social problems. Infant monkeys raised in these environments were not good mothers themselves, could not interact with their peers among other emotional problems. None of the children had stable attachments.
