4 main ways you can see an attachment:
1- Seeking proximity 2- Distress on
separation 3- Joy on reunion 4- General
behaviour
Bond = Set of feelings that ties one person to another
Benefits:
-Survival
-Food -Love
-Security
Learning Theory;
Classical Conditioning:
Stimulus, Response & Association
Operant Conditioning:
Rewards, reinforcements & Punishment
A02
Learning theory suggests that reinforcements make behaviours reoccur and
punishment reduce behaviour from happening. However this is contradicted by
attachments children have with cruel parents
Learning theory is too reductionist as it reduces human behaviour to stimulus,
response and reinforcemnts. However the human behaviour is more complec
than this
Learning theory predicts if reinforcements go away the
behaviour will disappear too, however this is not the case
as absence only strengthens attachment
Learning theory predicts that attachment will be with the person who
provides the most drive reduction, however Harlow's research contradicts
this, since Harlow's monkey only spent 2 of the 24hours with the food wire
mother. Therefore we mainly attach for comfort& security which outweighs
the need for food