PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - John Bowlby, Heredity
11 Sep 2013
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Attachment: the infant primate becomes attached to its mother. All normal kids are attached to their mother/caregiver. Aimsworth studied attachment to understand the basis and mechanisms for love. Bowlby argues that disruption of a child"s initial attachment with its mother (or that"s the mother child relationship) forms a working model: a template for all later relationships. Socialization research, how the environment may affect the child"s psychological/social development: ex: children that are attached tend to be happier/interact more/have more friends/less anxiety. Socialization research is based on correlations, not experiments: random assignment manipulation outcome, groups are treated identically except for the manipulation, can"t do experiments with attachments because can"t separate kids from parents for experimental control. Socialization research takes advantage of natural variations in parenting behavior: groups may have pre-existing differences, manipulations cannot be controlled, groups may not be treated identically. Correlational research provides weak claims for causality. (doesn"t mean attachment causes that outcome)
