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 ...
Animal Studies in Attachment What are the key animal Studies in attachment? There are two key studies within this area, which you need to know for this part of the course: Lorenz: Imprinting...
Multiple Attachments & the Role of the Father Multiple attachments Schaffer and Emerson (1964) found that by the time the infants were 18 months they had already formed multiple attachme...
Stages of Attachment Identified by Schaffer If you look back at Caregiver-infant interactions, the study by Schaffer and Emerson was discussed. There were several important findings from th...
Reciprocity & Interactional Synchrony How do infants learn to interact with other people? Like attachment in general, this will all start with the caregiver-infant and how they interact ...
