L33 Psych 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: John Bowlby, Attachment Theory, Animal Cognition
5 Mar 2019
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Attachment: historical context: attachment: early social emotional bond that forms between infant and caregiver. Historical context: observations in 1940s by john bowlby, british psychiatrist/psychoanalyst considered to be the father of. Harry harlow"s research quality of attachment: addressed notion of quality of attachment (what"s important, parameters that the attachment entails, late 1950s, early 1960s, american psychologist, trained at stanford and phd mentor was louis. Removed them from their mothers within a couple of days and would rear them in cages. Infant monkeys no matter which fed, spent more time with the cloth mother. Bowlby"s attachment theory: greatly influenced by ethology (branch of biology interested in species specific behaviors, promoted by instinctive tendencies biological basis to attachment in a human infant. Infant comes into the world exhibiting certain behaviors that are meant to elicit a caregiving response from somebody else (crying, hard to listen to without trying to do something about it: attachment develops over times.
