Psychology 2410A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 43 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

Attachment: an enduring emotion bond that unites 2 or more ppl across time and context. Purposes: ensures survivals by providing protection, help infant regulate negative emotions, reduces stress, enables development of competence and self-efficacy. Attachment behaviors: distress at separation from af, selectively go to af for comfort and assistance when hurt, sick, distressed, fearful, use af as secure base for exploration. Infant-mother relationship is first and strongest love-object and prototype of all later love relations: ethologist bonding studies involving duckling (k. lorenz) C. hull: drive reduction learning theories could not explain. K. lorenz: bonding studies involving ducklings (if can remove duck mothers and replace to himself, duck would treat him as stick around like duck mother, bonding process was wired to organisms. Infants socially deprived in orphanages; failure to thrive: problems with cognition, locomotion, extreme fear of novelty, self-stimulation, high mortality rate, he finds that infants who have no physical attachment, no touching, have 37% death rate.