explanations of attachment: learning theory

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explanations of attachment: learning theory

Advantages

  • elements of conditioning could be involved in some aspects of attachment -unlikely food association play central role in attachment but conditioning may. // baby associate feeling warm and comfortable with a certain adult influencing choice of main attachment figure
  • vespa 1988 suggest parents teach children to love by demonstrating (SLT) attachment behaviours e.g hugging and reinforce these behaviours by showing approval when babies display them

Disadvantages

  • learning theory explanations for attachment lack support from studies conducted on animals- geese imprinted first moving object despite object was associated with food/ Harlow monkey displayed attachment to soft surrogate over wire food
  • lack of support from studies of human babies- Schaffer and Emerson tend to form main attachment to mother regardless of if she fed them more. / Isabella found high levels of interactional synchrony predicted quality of attachment

Evaluation

- shows factors other than association of food are important in the formation of attachments + learning theory may still be useful in understanding the development of attachments+social learning perspective has further advantage that it is based around the two way interaction between baby and adult so fits better with research of reciprocity 

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