Development A
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- Bowlby (1969) we feel strong emotional connections with people who are important to us
- > first formed in infnacy, others through lifespan
- > quality of earlier relationships determines nature of later ones
Early behaviourism
- conditioned reinforcer hypothesis
- > feeding (intrinsic reinforcement) + mum (initially neutral stimulus) = mum becomes reinforcer
- > ditto other caregivers' behaviour that relieves baby's distress
Early psychoanalysis
- Freuds' psychosexual development theory
- > in oral stage (infancy), mums' generous feeding practices = more love
Harlowe's experiment
- infant monkeys brought up in isolation
- feeding less important than tactile (cuddling)
Cognitive developmental theories
- Piaget stage theory
- > infant's current stage of cognitive development determine their responses to the environment
- separation anxiety - dependence on attainment of object permanence
- fear of strangers - dependent on development of person schemas
- > consequently, strangers who fail to conform to these schemas, based on familiarity, are disturbing the baby
Innate/biological influences
- Lorenz (1937) imprinting in geese, sensitive period
- babies are perceived by adults as cute, elicit care behaviours
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