It is a theory that says that infants learn to become attached to someone possibly because they are the person who feeds them
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What is classical conditioning?
It is when an infant learns to associate two stimuli together so that they begin to respond to one in the same way as they do the other
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What is one example of classical conditioning?
One example of classical conditioning is the Little Albert Experiment
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What is operant conditioning?
This involves learning to repeat behavior or not depending on the consequence
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What is Bowlby's Monotropic theory?
Bowlby's Monotropic theory is that infants are pre biologically programmed to from attachments for survival
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What is Bowlby's law of continuity?
That the more constant and predictable a child's care, the better the quality of their attachement
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What is Bowlby's law of accumulated separation?
That the effects every separation from the mother adds up
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What are social releasers?
Bowlby suggested that infants are born wth cute behaviours that want to make adults take care of them and form attachments
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What is the critical period?
The critical period is two and a half years and it is when attachments must be formed in order for people to from healthy and normal attachments in the future
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What is the internal working model?
Bowlby proposed that a child forms a representation of their relationship with their primary care giver and uses this as a blue print into what relationships in the future will be like.
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What is classical conditioning?
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It is when an infant learns to associate two stimuli together so that they begin to respond to one in the same way as they do the other
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