CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Identity Formation, Habituation, Proprioception
17 Dec 2017
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Lecture 6: forming attachments: families and caregiving lecture notes. Caregiver and baby when they connect they don"t always connect. Times in sync with other people learning to read other person to get attached. Asocial phase (0 to 6 weeks) not attaching, prefers mother. Indiscriminate attachments (6 weeks 6/7 months) whoever"s nearby, easy transition to someone else. Multiple attachments (by 18 months) not set, but does attach. Rhesus monkeys reared with surrogate mothers made of wire and bottle and the other one covered with soft cloth. Monkeys fed by wire surrogate, fed by cloth surrogate. Monkeys liked cloth one no matter what all went to fuzzy even without food. Even if it was not the surrogate that fed them! Attachment must be based on more than feeding. The harlow reading gives you a glimpse in the research process. He found different ways to explore attachment and what contributes to it.
