Psychology 2410A/B Final: Final Lecture Notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Challenges to early attachment theories: orphanages, large increase in number of orphans after wwii (parents died in the war, were moved for safety, a lot of these children had developmental problems, these orphanages were quite good at meeting children"s physical and nutritional needs. If they were good physically, then why did the children still have negative outcomes: these orphanages were greatly understaffed a clue that attachment theory has more to it than just physical bond and feeding, monkey studies (harlow), harlow ran a series of surrogate mother experiments, he would take baby monkeys away from their biological mother, and would raise them with two mannequin monkeys, feeding experiments: Stage 1: morality of constraint (< 7 years old: rules as rigid, rules as things , power difference, consequences of action determine good/bad, they will think that someone who dropped 5 plates by accident deserves more of a punishment than someone who dropped 4 on purpose.