PS390 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eleanor J. Gibson, Perceptual Learning, Attachment Theory
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After the war, behavourists made assumption that developmentally, individuals were more similar than different. Some social psychologists argued children were born programmed to fit into society and pass through set of pre-determined stages of sensory and motor development. One popular field was sense of "self" and "theory of mind" Robert sears argued a series of s-r connections shaped development while bandura argued learning takes place by modelling behaviour of others. Started by eleanor gibson in 1950s, investigated the interactive ways in which children learn how to perceive and use objects in their environment. Developed by mary ainsworth who observed children"s reactions to strange situations an concluded that through evolutionary, ethnological, cognitive and psychodynamic mechanisms children develop secure, avoidant, or ambivalent relationships w their mothers. Developed from harlow"s experiments w maternally deprived rhesus monkeys. Concluded that contact was crucial for attachment but his work does not necessarily translate to humans who have culture and language, which monkeys do not.
