Animal Studies of Attachment

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Created on: 21-05-22 12:52

Researcher A found that young animals seemed to attach for comfort rather than for food.

Researcher B found that newborn animals would follow the first large moving object that they saw.

Give the name of Researcher A and state the type of animal studied

Harlow - Rhesus monkeys.

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Give the name of researcher B and state the type of animal studies by this researcher.

Lorenz - Goslings

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Briefly discuss one limitation of using animals to study attachment in humans.

Humans have complex behaviours, and therefore it could be said that animal behaviour cannot be generalised to humans. For example, humans may not imprint on the first moving thing they see in the same way that humans would. Therefore, this is a limitation

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Outline the procedure used in one study of animal attachment.

Harlow conducted research with 8 rhesus monkeys which were caged from infancy with wire mesh food dispensing and cloth-covered surrogate mothers, to investigate which of the two alternatives would have more attachment behaviours directed towards it. Harlo

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Outline how Lorenz and Harlow studied attachment using animals.

In Lorenz's study, goose eggs were randomly divided, and half were hatched with the mother present in their natural environment, and the other half were hatched in an incubator with Lorenz's present. Then the behaviour of all of the goslings were recorded

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Card 2

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Give the name of researcher B and state the type of animal studies by this researcher.

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Lorenz - Goslings

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Front

Briefly discuss one limitation of using animals to study attachment in humans.

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Card 4

Front

Outline the procedure used in one study of animal attachment.

Back

Card 5

Front

Outline how Lorenz and Harlow studied attachment using animals.

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Animal Studies of Attachment