Learning theory explanations for attachment
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- Created on: 14-04-16 09:07
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- Learning theory explanations for attachment
- Attachment
- Learning theory: Infants are not born with an ability to develop attachments, they learn attachments because of food
- Evolutionary theory: Tendency to form attachments is innate, tendency in both mothers and infants
- Learning theory
- Classical conditioning: Learning through association, automatically connecting one thing with another
- Operant conditioning: Learning through reinforcement, you learn through the consequences of behaviour
- Classical conditioning
- Food automatically makes baby happy- no longer hungry
- Mother keeps feeding baby, baby associates mother with good feelings
- Whenever baby sees mother, automatically feel happy
- Operant conditioning
- Baby cries in response to feelings of discomfort e.g. hunger
- Reward: PR (food)
- Baby likely to repeat crying
- Attachment
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