Animal studies of attachment
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- Animal studies of attachment
- Harlow 1950s
- Harlow studied the factors which contributed to attachment in Rhesus monkeys
- Monkeys were separated from their moths at birth and were placed with two types of “surrogate”
- Cloth mother; did not provide nourishment
- Found that the monkeys clung to cloth mother unless desperately hungry
- Harlow concluded that nourishment was not the most important factor for an attachment as previously thought, but that comfort and security was also a factor
- Weaknesses
- Ethical concerns with using animals
- Strengths
- Contributed to understandingthat an attachment was not solely food-based and this changed perceptions in the scientific and psychological domain
- Weaknesses
- Harlow concluded that nourishment was not the most important factor for an attachment as previously thought, but that comfort and security was also a factor
- Found that the monkeys clung to cloth mother unless desperately hungry
- Wire mother; provided nourishment
- Cloth mother; did not provide nourishment
- Monkeys were separated from their moths at birth and were placed with two types of “surrogate”
- Harlow studied the factors which contributed to attachment in Rhesus monkeys
- Lorenz 1935
- Lorenz studied imprinting on goslings to see the effect on their attachments
- He halved the eggs from a goose
- Half hatched in an incubator with Lorenz
- Imprinted on Lorenz and followed him around
- Concluded that imprinting must occur within 13-16 hours of birth otherwise it does not occur. Imprinting is irreversible
- Strengths
- Developed a basis for further theories such as Bowlby’s monotropic theory
- Weaknesses
- Does not generalise to humans who do not experience imprinting in this way.
- Ethical issues with using animals
- Strengths
- Concluded that imprinting must occur within 13-16 hours of birth otherwise it does not occur. Imprinting is irreversible
- Imprinted on Lorenz and followed him around
- Half hatched naturally with the mother
- Imprinted on mother and followed her around
- Half hatched in an incubator with Lorenz
- He halved the eggs from a goose
- Lorenz studied imprinting on goslings to see the effect on their attachments
- Harlow 1950s
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- Harlow concluded that nourishment was not the most important factor for an attachment as previously thought, but that comfort and security was also a factor
- Weaknesses
- Ethical concerns with using animals
- Strengths
- Contributed to understandingthat an attachment was not solely food-based and this changed perceptions in the scientific and psychological domain
- Weaknesses
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