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Flashcards by Megan McLean, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Megan McLean
over 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Identify three points relating to classical conditioning on how it can explain attachment | Learning through association UCS produces unconditioned reflex Food UCS makes dog salivate |
| What is operant conditioning? | Learning occurs when we are rewarded or punished for a desirable or undesirable action |
| Evaluate Learning Theory | Contact comfort more important than food- Harlow Adequate explanation of how attachments form Human studies challenge importance of food- Schaffer and Emerson |
| What is Bowlby's Theory? (7 points) | 1.Attachment is adaptive and innate 2. Critical period 3. Social releasers 4. Secure base 5. Monotrophy and hierarchy 6. Internal working model 7. Continuity hypothesis |
| Strengths of Bowlby's theory | Imprinting in non-human animals- Lorenz Sensitive period- Hodges and Tizard Universality- Tronick et al. Monotropy and hierarchy- Tronick et al; Schaffer and Emerson; Blum Caregiver sensitivity- Schaffer and Emerson; Harlow and Carlson Continuity- Sroufe et al |
| Weaknesses of Bowlby | Multiple attachments- Rutter and Grosmann and Grosmann Temperment hypothesis |
| Explain Ainsworth's study into attachment | 1. Parent and child play 2. Parent sits while child plays 3. Stranger enters 4. Parent leaves, stranger comforts. 5. Parent returns, stranger leaves 6. Parent leaves child aone 7. Stranger enters 8. Parent returns |
| What behaviour is studied in Ainsworth's study? | Secure base Stranger anxiety Separation anxiety Reunion behaviour Separation anxiety Stranger anxiety Reunion behaviour |
| Describe and explain the three types of attachment | Secure attachment- Normal type, harmonious cooperative relationship Insecure-avoidant - avoid social interactions, avoids contacts. Insecure- resistant - Want contact, then become angry and avoid contact. |
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