PSYCH 3JJ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reinforcement, Cognitive Development, John Bowlby
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Difficult temperaments find it hard to adapt to environmental demands and elicit adverse reactions. It is negative reinforcement, it plays a role in how the environment will respond. Psychoanalytic: they say the basis for attachment is oral gratification, they become attached because they associate her with the gratification of the instinctual drive to obtain pleasure through oral stimulation. Cognitive developmental: before babies form attachment, they need object permanence and also to identify mother. It is more than just for feeding: these views give us a basic understanding of attachment. If thinking the basis is oral gratification, then these monkeys behaviors do not makes. It is seeking comfort. sense: this means that these two theories cannot explain attachment. Who: usually the mother if she is the primary caregiver, multiple attachments are common like with other family, number of attachment is limited because it is about frequent close interactions.
