explanations for attachment

what is the learning theory

Dolland and miller- thoery of cupboard love-infant attatch to care giver as they give food

How does it use operant and classical conditioning

classical-Food is an unconditioned stimulus- which provides pleasure which is an unconditioned response- mother becomes associated with the food and goes from a netural stimuli to a conditioned stimuli

operant-+ reinforcement- baby is fed when it cries- - reinforcement baby stops crying when its fed-removal of unplesant stimuli

Cupboard love

Baby primary drive is to get food and secondary drive is to attatch to care giver

Eval

+high face validity-test or study measure what it claims to measure

+supported by the behaviorist approach

-harlow monkeys- mokey chose comfort over food

bowlby monotropic theory

evolutionary explanation- infant form 1 primary attatchment due to an innate drive to bond in order to survie as they will provide food and security

how do social releaser help develop a monotropic relatioship

behaviours that babies are biologically pre-programmed to do, which attract the attention of caregiver

how long is the critical period of the monotropic attachment and what are tje potenial consequences

30 months to form a monotropic attachment and no attachment means there will be social , interlectual and emotional consequences

what does the monotropic attachment provide for later on in life and what is this known as

blue print for future relationships-internal working model

safe base behaviour

infants use mother as a base to explore and show moderate level of seperation and sttranger anxiety

Eval

+Lorenz-imprinting which is an innate biological process that aids survival similar to bowlbly monotropic thoery

-Rutter-romanian orpahns could form monotropic attachment outside of critical period leading it to now be known as a sensetive period'

-scahffer and emerson- by 18 months 75% infant have a primary attachment with father and mother- can have more than 1 primary attachment