PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Attachment Theory

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

The industrial revolution was 1800-1900 in western society when technology was advancing a lot. England it was not unless for a child to start working at the age of 12, in the mines as young as 6 years old. The children were used to plant the dynamite in the mines. Textile factories, the children would clean under the machines while they were still on and running. In great britain the child labour law became enacted to stop children from working at such a young age, and soon north america followed. General perception of using children for work is called the sapling theory, the sapling looks like a tree and does the same thing but the size is different, and the view was the same for children. Caterpillar theory, a child butterfly, but doesn"t look like the adult it"s going to become. Children may look like us (as adults) but they have different needs.