PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mental Model, Breastfeeding, Attachment Theory
27 Jun 2017
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The way you feel about your parents, you will relive in romantic relationships. Breast feeding: one of the things that determines attachment, is how caring mom was about breast feeding. If mom is unresponsive and dad is responsive, baby will actually prefer dad (primary attachment): cognitive development approach: Importance of being able to recognize difference between mom and others. Importance of object (person) permanence in attachment formation. But once we form mental representations by age (cid:884), we don"t need to always do this. Infants need to be close to mom and dad all the time. They need to follow them with their: attachment is adaptive. Things babies do that cause their parents to want them to take care of them: evolutionary approach: essentially has led us to survive. 1: we are born with biological preparedness: Instinctual signaling by baby elicits parental care. (baby cries, parent does what baby wants you to do: sensitive parental responding leads to mutual bond.
