Animal Studies of Attachment
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- Created on: 16-05-18 17:05
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- Lorenz's Research
- Animal Studies of Attachment
- Harlow's Research
- Procedure
- 16 baby monkeys were reared with 2 wire mothers
- Condition 1: Milk dispensed by wire mother
- Condition 2: milk dispensed by cloth covered mother
- Findings
- Baby monkeys preferred cuddling soft object than wire one. This was regardless of which one dispensed milk.
- 'contact comfort' is more important to the monkeys than food when it came to attachment behaviour
- Effect on Adulthood
- More agressive, less sociable, unskilled at mating
- The ones that were mothers neglected their babies and sometimes killed them
- More agressive, less sociable, unskilled at mating
- Critical period
- Mother had to be introduced within 90 days or else attachment would be impossible and deprivation irreversible
- Procedure
- Harlow's Research
- Imprinting
- When bird species that are mobile from birth, attach to the first moving object they see
- Procedure
- Did study on geese. 2 conditions: Experimental and Control
- Experimental condition: eggs hatched in incubator. Lorenz was first moving thing they saw
- Control condition: eggs hatched in natural environment and mother goose was the first thing they saw
- Did study on geese. 2 conditions: Experimental and Control
- Sexual imprinting
- Relationship between imprinting and adult mate preferences
- Birds imprint on human= display courtship behaviours towards humans when adults
- Relationship between imprinting and adult mate preferences
- Procedure
- Did study on geese. 2 conditions: Experimental and Control
- Experimental condition: eggs hatched in incubator. Lorenz was first moving thing they saw
- Control condition: eggs hatched in natural environment and mother goose was the first thing they saw
- Did study on geese. 2 conditions: Experimental and Control
- Findings
- The chicks who saw him before anything followed him like they would a mother even when mixed with other chicks
- The chicks who saw mother before anything followed mother even when mixed with other chicks
- Critical period
- Geese had a few hours to imprint or else they never would
- Evaluation
- Limitation: only interested in imprinting in birds. Can't generalise to humans as mammals are very different from birds. Mammals can form attachments later on in life
- Limitation: Lorenz conclusion isn't completely accurate. Guiton found that chickens imprinted on yellow glove later preferred mating with chickens. Imprinting not permanent.
- Animal Studies of Attachment
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