animal studies of attachment
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- Created on: 30-05-18 14:06
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- animal studies on attachment
- descritpiton
- findings- goslings imprinted on Lorenz and followed him
- Lorenz procedure- goose eggs incubated so first thing they saw was Lorenz or natural mother
- critical period- imprinting doesn't happen later
- long lasting effects- irreversible and related to mate choice (sexual imprinting)
- description
- Harlow procedure - wire mother's one cloth and one for food
- findings- monkeys spent most the time with the wire cloth monkey than one for food
- long-lasting effects- all motherless monkeys were socially and sexually abnormal
- critical period- attachments must be formed before six months
- evaluation
- generalising to humans may not be justified but findings conformed (schaffer and Emerson)
- confounding variable- wire mother faces different, varied systematically with independent variable
- Ethics- benefits may outweigh costs, but it does not challenge findings
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