Animal studies

imprinting

a specific type of attachment where an animal, typically a bird, forms a strong bond with the first moving object it sees after hatching.

Lorenz procedure

goose eggs were split into 2- half hatched in an incubator with lorenz and the other half hatched with biological mother

lorenz findings

when the gosling hatched with lorenz they imprinted with him and when mixed with the other goslings they both went to there own parent

lorenz also found that they have a 32h critical period to imprint and if they dont they will never be able to imprint

Harlow aim and procedure

tested the thoery of cupboard love-love due to being fed

infant monkeys were placed into cages with a wire monkey with food and a cloth monkey

harlow findings

most of the time monkeys spent with the wire one and only leave when hungry-physical contact>food

later research found that the meternal deperivation led to permentant social disorders

Eval

-cannot genralise

-unethical-mokey suffered social damage-counter-cost benefit analysis as there were long term benefits to human infants

+supported by bowlby-that infants need comfort contact with mother and without it infants have poor social skills