explanations for attachment
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- explanations of attachment
- 1. Learning theory
- Classical conditioning - food provides pleasure(mother provides food she will become associated with this pleasure and becomes conditioned stimulus/ response)
- Operant conditioning - reinforcement (babies cry for comfort, negative reinforcement, cause response from caregiver)
- reinforcement works both ways, babies get comfort and mum gets the crying to stop)
- food is the primary reinforcer because it reinforces the behaviour in order to avoid discomfort)
- the mother becomes the secondary reinforcer whose presence produces a conditioned response of pleasure
- LIMITATION - suggests that food is the key motivator
- Schaffer, infants eat to live rather than live to eat
- LIMITATION-Attachment is not always to the person who provides the food
- Schaffer and Emerson suggest that sensitivity from the mother is more important for attachment
- 39% of the children had a primary attachment to the father rather than the mother
- 2. Bowlbys theory of attachment
- Attachment is adaptive, child displays behaviour that will increase likelihood of survival
- uses behaviours known as social releasers, eg crying or smiling
- Monotropy, Bowlbys theory is monotropic as it puts emphasis on having one particular attachment
- Bowlby believes they will have a number of attachments but one stronger than any of the others
- the law of continuity (more constant the care, the better the quality of their attachment
- the law of accumulated separation (effects of separation from the mother add up, therefore safest dose of separation is no does)
- the law of continuity (more constant the care, the better the quality of their attachment
- Bowlby believes they will have a number of attachments but one stronger than any of the others
- Monotropy, Bowlbys theory is monotropic as it puts emphasis on having one particular attachment
- 1. Learning theory
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