PSYCH 450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Konrad Lorenz, John Bowlby, Play Therapy
04/05/18 lecture 18: Transitions across the life course: puberty and aging
• 3 primary stages in the mother-infant relationship
o Support
o Ambivalence
o Rejection
o Squirrel monkey: a couple months
o Apes: about 3 years
• Importance of tactile stimulation
• Harry Hurlow
o Contact comfort
• John Bowlby
o Attachment
o Sight is not what drives the attachment
o Mokey ill rok ad hold theseles if raised y surrogate other that is’t
real
• Konrad Lorenz
o Imprinting
• Behaviorism
o Lessons from the Science of Psychology for Child Rearing
o Used to tell people to refrain from giving too much comfort to children
• Monkey See, Monkey Do
o Imitation and mirror neurons
o When young monkeys are raised, are very imitative
o Lip Smacking and tongue protrusion
o Monkey was exposed to hormone oxytocin and is more prone to imitate
• Play therapy for human-reared monkeys
o How to rehabilitate a monkey that was used in research
o If played with other monkeys before 6 months then would be rehabilitate mostly
back to normal
• Dog as surrogate parent for monkey
o Do’t sho rokig ad luthig ehaior
• Grandparent therapy
o Older animals help substitute for the young ones raised without their mother
• Neural pathways using monoamine neurotransmitters
o Serotonin (sleep/wake, depression)
o Norepinephrine (arousal, depression)
o Dopamine (movement, motivated behavior, involved in drug addiction)
o From hindbrain protruding forward
• Reaction to separation and loss
o Same neurotransmitters associated with depressive response went up
• Oscar - orphaned chimp adopted by male
o Young monkey with this adult male as its protector
o Chimpanzee movie
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Document Summary
04/05/18 lecture 18: transitions across the life course: puberty and aging: 3 primary stages in the mother-infant relationship, support, ambivalence, rejection, squirrel monkey: a couple months, apes: about 3 years. Importance of tactile stimulation: harry hurlow, contact comfort. John bowlby: attachment, sight is not what drives the attachment, mo(cid:374)key (cid:449)ill ro(cid:272)k a(cid:374)d hold the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es if raised (cid:271)y surrogate (cid:373)other that is(cid:374)"t real, konrad lorenz. Imprinting: behaviorism, lessons from the science of psychology for child rearing, used to tell people to refrain from giving too much comfort to children, monkey see, monkey do. Infancy -> weaning -> juvenile (time of most social play) -> puberty -> subadult -> adolescence -> adulthood -> aged (old age more common in captivity) Juvenile stage: solo play/social play/object play: environmental exploration, time of exuberance/highest energy, why play, fun (rewarding, to learn skills, socialization (to acquire social skills, behavioral plasticity (new discoveries, energy expenditure, defining play.
