PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Harry Harlow, Terrycloth, John Bowlby

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Tanya Salamander

Document Summary

Strong, innate emotional connection persisting over time and circumstances: familiarity, comfort, responsiveness. Does not occur in humans but still plays an important role. Experiments and manipulate exposure of what ducks saw after hatching, followed him. Babies spent more time with terrycloth mother than wire mother. Scared baby monkey, monkey ran and clung onto terrycloth mother. Behavioral impairment in baby monkeys that grew up with wire mother. The importance of affection and emotional nurturance in mother-child relationships. We as species successfully adapted by regulating proximity to an attachment figure. Distressed by parent leaving: recovers when parent returns. Avoidant attachment: 20% of children, not distressed when parent leaves, comforted by stranger; brush-offs parents. Anxious-ambivalent attachment: 15% of children, extremely upset when parent leaves, mixed response to parent"s return. Variation in serotonin gene (5-httlpr), alters environmental sensitivity regardless of the level of parental comfort. Are more effective at seeking social support. Higher cortisol (stress hormone) during conflict or separation.