PSYC21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Maternal Bond, Mental Model, Prefrontal Cortex
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Babies become attached to their teddy bears and blankets. Research up close: early experience, hormones, and attachment. Real-world application: attachment when mother goes to prison. Attachments to both mother and father are related to later development. Into adulthood: from early attachment to later romantic relationships. Chapter summary: during the second half of the first year, infants form attachments to the important people in their lives. Study = lorenz = ducklings and imprinting (the process by which birds and other infrahuman animals develop a preference for the person or object to which they are first exposed during a brief, critical period after birth) Emphasis on the active role played by the infant"s early social signaling systems, such as smiling and crying. An attachment is a relationship, not simply a behavior of either the infant or the parent. How attachment develops: the first phase in the development of attachment is learning to discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar people.
