01:830:331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Critical Period Hypothesis, Mental Model, John Bowlby
3 Mar 2017
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Attachment: characteristics of attachment and how it develops, theoretical explanations, bowlby"s theory and ethological perspective, problems" with bowlby"s original theory, types of secure and insecure attachments, how measured, causes. Internal working model of attachment: long-term consequences, consequences of secure and insecure attachment, consequences of failure to form attachment. Characteristics of attachment: child enjoys contact with parents, tries to remain close, proximity seeking, protests when separated separation anxiety, may be wary of strangers stranger anxiety, comforted by parents" presence secure base. Early views: emphasized role of mother as provider of nourishment, psychoanalytic theory (freud, learning theory, not supported by harlow"s research, 1959. Infant monkeys raised in cages with 2 wire substitute mothers . Infant monkeys preferred the cloth mother, even though the wire mother provided nourishment. Bowlby: attachment is a biological process, built into species: harlow"s research importance of contact comfort , research with hospitalized children (spitz) separation produced protest, despair, and detachment long-term emotional trauma.
