PSYCH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Attachment Theory, Behaviorism, John Bowlby
29 Feb 2016
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Our irst experience in groups is with our family. Close atachments with care-givers set up our emoional networks for trust, empathy and social connecion. Psychologists long ime ago ignored/scofed at the role of emoion. Both stressed the danger of the irraional parental emoions of love and warmth, and the overindulgence of children with afecion. 2 scholars turned the ide away from these cool , ani-emoional approaches: bowlby: Trained as a psychoanalyst, worked with orphaned children ater wwi. Stressed that parents are important and normaive: harlow: Trained in the american experimental and behaviorist tradiion. Moved to wisconsin and started to observe animals at the zoo. Observed things that couldn"t be explained from a behaviorist perspecive. Monkeys placed either with a wire monkey with food, or a cloth covered monkey with no food. Monkeys preferred and clinged on to the cloth covered wire monkey.
