Animal attachment

• Imprinting (Lorenz)


  animals attach/ imprint to the first moving thing they see during their critical period
• critical period 


  period of time where animals form primary attachment. if missed then will never happen
• Lorenz A01


  two groups of goslings:

  one first saw mother and the other first saw lorenz in incubator and followed him forever
• Lorenz A03


  + led to bowlbys theory

  — can’t generalise to humans
• sexual imprinting 


  relationship between imprinting and adult mating preferences

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• Rheus monkey study 


  Harlow 1958
• Harlow strengths 


  + influenced understanding of human attachment

  + disproved SLT

  +practical applications
• Harlow weaknesses 


  • humans are still more complex
  • unethical as monkeys had psychological issues