Attachment - Learning Theory
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- Attachment - Learning Theory
- Explanation
- Classical Conditioning
- Learning through association
- Applying
- Before Conditioning
- Food: Unconditioned stimulus
- Pleasure: Unconditioned response
- During Conditioning
- Mother: Neutral stimulus
- After Conditioning
- Mother: Conditioned stimulus
- Pleasure: Conditioned response
- Before Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Learning by reinforcement and punishment
- Applying
- Infant feels hungry
- Food produces feeling of pleasure - rewarding
- Food is primary reinforcer
- Mother brings food (reward)
- Mother is secondary reinforcer
- Food produces feeling of pleasure - rewarding
- Infant feels hungry
- Classical Conditioning
- Association between mother and pleasure develops attachment
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Watson + Rayner - Little Albert
- Used classical conditioning to make Albert afraid of rats
- Wasn't afraid of anything other than natural fear of loud noises
- Whenever shown white rat (UC) hit a steel (NS) which frightened him (UR)
- By end, whenever shown a white rat (CS) he got frightened (CR)
- Watson + Rayner - Little Albert
- Weaknesses
- Schaffer + Emerson - Glasgow babies
- Found that babies grew attachments with those who were most interactive and sensitive - not always food giver
- Harlow's Monkey's
- Monkeys showed attachment to wire mother which gave contact comfort not food
- Can it be applied to humans?
- Schaffer + Emerson - Glasgow babies
- Strengths
- Explanation
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