Evaluation of learning/evolutionary theory
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- Evaluation of learning/evolutionary theory
- Learning theory
- Theory makes sense and is simple
- Aspects of theory found in real life e.g operant conditioning- valid
- Reductionist- reduces behaviour to simple explanation, ignores other factors
- Harlow's experiment suggests infants prefer comfort over food
- Schaffer and Emerson suggest attachments more likely to be formed by those actively involved in care
- Difficult to generalise animal findings to humans
- Evolutionary theory
- Support for Bowlby's theory is Hasan and Shaver's love quiz- strong relationship between childhood and adulthood attachment type
- Support for IWM in Black and Shuttes study- link found between childhood and adulthood relationships
- Bowlby's ideas about importance of attachments have produced substantial amounts of research and had an enormous impact on emotional care of young children
- Too reductionist and deterministic to assume that adult relationships are down to a few early attachments
- Rutter found babies display whole range of attachment behaviours towards attachment figures other than mothers. S&E's study says fathers can be attachment figures just as much as mothers
- Schaffer and Emersons study showed multiple attachments are norm rather than exception. Reduces validity of monotropy
- Learning theory
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