EXPLANATIONS OF ATTACHMENT

EXPLANATIONS OF ATTACHMENT

LEARNING THEORY OF ATTACHMENT:

• Attachment is not innate.
• Attachment is learnt.
• Attachment depends on who feeds the baby.

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING:

• Baby is hungry, food (UCS).
• Pleasure is felt when baby recieves food (UCR).
• PCG (NS) provides food.
• In time the PCG becomes CS and pleasure becomes CR.

OPERANT CONDITIONING:

• Infants learn to express emotion to…