PSYC 3520 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rhesus Macaque, Harry Harlow, John Bowlby

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3520
• Professor: Maria Legerstee

Document Summary

Chapter 7 social influences on infants" sense of self. Social interactionists: emphasizes the role of parents in being attuned to infants" emotions, bowlby, bruner, fogel, stern, trevarthen, tronick, vygotsky. Propose that infants have: animate/inanimate (innate ability to distinguish between the social and the non-social, intersubjectivity (innate sense of emotions, self, and people, behaviours that point to initial social nature (smiling, cooing, eye movements) These behaviours are used to call people, share emotions; through these interactions, infant eventually becomes attached. It confirms inferences about the emotions felt, observed, and attuned. Prototype for future attachments: problems with psychoanalytic and learning theories. Harlow"s macques: raised infant rhesus monkeys in isolation, infant monkeys had two artificial mothers. Human infants emit social signals when fearful. Human infants grow up in interaction, not isolation: rhesus monkeys were separated from their mothers at birth. Consequently, behaviours of monkeys were severely impaired.