only 39% were strongly attached to the person who fed them most
shows food isn't the main reason for attachment
low population validity- only in Glasgow so results may be different elsewhere
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Harry Harlow
experiment with several baby monkeys
took them away from their mother and gave them a choice of two fake mothers, one with wire and a milk bottle and another covered in a fluffy cloth but no milk bottle
found that monkeys prefer the fluffy mother so they prefer love and comfort more than food as they spent most of the time with the fluffy mother
shows attachments are formed with love and not food
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operant conditioning- skinner
behaviour with a positive outcome is more likely to be repeated
lots of evidence that we can learn through operant conditioning
Skinner showed rats could learn words by rewarding behaviours
whilst this shows we could learn attachments through operant conditioning it doesn't mean that we do
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classical conditioning- Pavlov
some evidence that animals and humans can learn through classical conditioning
pavlov showed that dogs associate a bell ringing with food as they produced salivia even when no food was actually served when the bell rang
this shows we could learn attachments through classical conditioning but doesn't mean that we do
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