Romanian Orphan Studies: Effects of Institutionalisation During the 1990s, horrific images flooded the news of children in poor conditions in Romanian orphanages. The former Romanian preside...
Bowlby's Theory of Maternal Deprivation Bowlby's Theory of Maternal Deprivation (MDH) explains what happens when an attachment is broken between an infant and their mother or mother figure, ...
Cultural Variations in Attachment, including Van ljzendoorn One of the biggest criticisms aimed at Ainsworth's original study was that it was ethnocentric, only using a US sample. Over the n...
Types of Attachment There are three types of attachment: secure, insecure-avoidant and insecure resistant Secure attachment This was found to be the most common attachment type in the Strang...
Ainsworth's 'Strange Situation' Ainsworth's strange situation This is a lab observation designed to measure the quality of attachment and the differences in attachment styles in infants. Ainsworth ...
The Concepts of a Critical Period and an Internal Working Model Bowlby's Monotropic explanation of attachment contains several ideas which have become crucial to our understanding of how ear...
Bowlby’s Monotropic Theory Learning explanations of attachment have been discredited by a wealth of research conducted on both human and non-human animals. Bowlby took a different approach t...
Explanations of Attachment Explanations of attachment There are three main explanations that are needed for the exam: Learning Theory 1: Classical conditioning Learning Theory 2: Operant con...
Lorenz & Harlow Lorenz (1935) Lorenz was an ethologist who looked at the phenomenon of Imprinting in goslings. Imprinting is the idea that some species attach to the first moving object ...
