Explanations of attachment: Learning Theory
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- Created on: 02-05-18 11:43
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- Explanantions of attachment: Learning theory
- Classical conditioning (Pavlov)
- Learning through association
- Begin with innate stimulus response (Food) (UCS)
- Items become associated with food - present when fed. Parents, chair, spoon (NS)
- Consistant = learned (CS) prodeuces (CR)
- Dollard and Miller
- Hungry = discomfort
- Fed = feeling of pleasure (rewarding)
- Food = primary reinforcer
- Person who supplies food = Secondary reinforcer
- Attachment occurs because seek the person who supplies reward
- Hungry = discomfort
- Based on animals
- Pavlovs dogs - generalised to humans. Not all our behaviour can be explained = attachment
- Validity
- Non-behaviouists - attachment involves innate predopisitions and mental activity
- Lacks validity = oversimplified version of human behaviour
- Non-behaviouists - attachment involves innate predopisitions and mental activity
- Suggests food is key
- LT = food is key to forming an attachment
- Harlows monkeys show that this is incorrect
- LT = food is key to forming an attachment
- Lacks explanation where as others dont
- Other theories such as Bowlby's theory have more advantages
- Facts
- Other theories such as Bowlby's theory have more advantages
- Classical conditioning (Pavlov)
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