PSY 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Harry Harlow, Behaviorism, Dopamine Receptor D4
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Attachment: emotional bond with a specific person that is enduring across space and time, helps child feel emotionally secure. Form of co-regulation that helps children manage levels of arousal and emotion. Filmed orphaned infants: developmentally impaired; unmotivated, death rate of 37% over 2yr period, prolonged grief and depression, emphasized the importance of emotional dimensions of caregiving. Focus: development of orphaned young children affected by quality of caregiving received: behaviorism: proposed that breast milk is basis for bond. Infant monkeys reared away from mothers: physically healthy but had emotional and behavioral problems, tested whether the pleasure of food or pleasure of comfort was important to monkeys. If they didn"t have surrogate mothers: engage in self-comforting behaviors, then explore the room but return back to surrogate. If they gave them a cloth surrogate, they would cling onto them: problems, many of the monkeys became disturbed, unethical and cruel.
