The learning theory of attachment
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- Created on: 01-05-14 15:11
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- The learning Theory Of Attachment
- What is attachment?
- Attachment is a strong emotional bond between two people that lasts over time and leads to proximity seeking behaviour
- Dollard and Miller
- Behaviorists believe that attachment is learnt
- They used classical and operant conditioning to explain how an infant become attached to their primary care giver.
- Classical conditioning
- PAVLOV
- This can also be known as 'learning through association'
- Behaviours are learnt through association with cues
- Getting fed gives a baby pleasure
- The baby associates whoever is giving them food with that pleasure
- After a while, the baby will have associated the mother with pleasure
- The baby associates whoever is giving them food with that pleasure
- Operant conditioning
- SKINNER
- This is known as learning through reinforcement
- If a behaviour is rewarded it is more likely to be repeated
- If a behaviour is punished it is less likely to be repeated
- Evaluation
- HARLOW
- Method: what was most important to babies, food or comfort.
- The monkeys had to choose between wire model who offered food or a comfort model
- Results: The monkeys spent most of their time on the comfort model and only went to the wire model for food
- This suggests that comfort is more important than food, meaning the learning theory is wrong
- Method: what was most important to babies, food or comfort.
- SCHAFFER AND EMERSON
- They studied 1 year old's in Glasgow and found that infants were more attached to the person who cared for them
- Not the person that feeds them
- This suggests that comfort is more important than food, meaning the learning theory is wrong
- Not the person that feeds them
- They studied 1 year old's in Glasgow and found that infants were more attached to the person who cared for them
- HARLOW
- What is attachment?
- Not the person that feeds them
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