PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mental Model, Intellectual Disability, Prolonged Grief Disorder
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Introduction: infants that receive adequate institutional care, but not adequate caregiving from parents, were generally sickly and developmentally impaired. Unmotivated to live; intense, prolonged grief and depression. Instead, must provide caregiving that provides close socioemotional bonds: children develop attachments: close and enduring emotional bonds to parents/other primary caregivers. The caregiver-child attachment relationship: monkey experiments: raised infant monkeys in isolation from birth and compared that with monkeys raised normally with mothers. Isolated babies well fed and healthy, but had no exposure to mothers/other monkeys. When placed with other monkeys 6 months later, bit compulsively, rocked themselves, and avoided others completely, incapable of communicating with, or learning from others. As adults, females had no interest in sex. If pregnant, didn"t know what to do with babies. Supports view that children"s healthy social and emotional development is rooted in their early social interactions with adults. Influenced by freud: infants" earliest relationship with mother shape later development.
