Animal studies of attachment
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- Animal studies of attachment
- Harlow
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Important real-world application
- Weaknesses
- Not very generaliseable to humans
- Strengths
- Contact comfort
- Procedure
- Harlow reared 16 baby monkeys with two model mothers
- In one condition, a plain wire model mother dispensed milk
- In the other condition, a cloth covered model mother dispensed milk
- Findings
- The monkeys showed a preference for the cloth mother, and sought comfort from it when frightened
- Even preferred the cloth covered mother if it didn't dispense milk
- Procedure
- Maternal deprivation
- Harlow followed the monkeys after the study, and found that they were dysfunctional
- Critical period
- If an attachment was not formed within 90 days, it could not be formed at all
- Evaluation
- Lorenz
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Supporting research
- Regolin and Vallortigara
- Supporting research
- Weaknesses
- Not very generaliseable to humans
- Strengths
- Imprinting
- Findings
- Incubator group followed Lorenz, control group followed their mother, even when mixed together
- Critical period
- Imprinting must occur a few hours after birth
- Procedure
- Lorenz randomly divided a large clutch of goose eggs
- Half hatched with the mother goose in their natural environment
- Half hatched in an incubator, and the first thing they saw was Lorenz
- Findings
- Sexual imprinting
- Birds show courtship behaviour towards whatever species they imprint on
- Evaluation
- Harlow
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