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What were the
two
key animal studies?
Lorenz
1935
Harlow
1998
What is the
critical window of development
?
The concept that attachment needs to be made
during
this
time
frame
for
normal
development
to occur
What animal did
Lorenz
study?
Baby
geese
/
goslings
What animal did Harlow study?
Baby
Rhesus
monkeys
What
2
groups of goslings did Lorenz have?
Hatched
with
natural
mother.
Hatched
with
Lorenz
What did the goslings do
immediately?
Follow
the
first
animate
object
seen
with
13
to
16
hours of hatching.
Why do goslings imprint after a matter of minutes?
They have
increased
mobility
so a it
forms
immediate
attachment
as a
biological
adaptation
to
promote
survival.
What does
imprinting
affect?
It is
long
lasting
and
irreversible.
It affects the
later
mate.
What is it called when the mate is affected by imprinting?
Sexual imprinting
What is a study to show
sexual imprinting
?
Imprinting with a
tortoise
and a
baby
peacock
and later in life
peacock
did
not
want
to
mate
with
other
peacocks
but with tortoise
What did the monkeys in Harlow’s study have?
Baby monkeys had a
wire
mother
and a
cloth
mother.
What was the procedure of Harlow’s study?
8
Infant rhesus
monkeys
studied for 165
days.
Measured
attachment
by how much
time
was
spent
with
either
the
wire
or
cloth
surrogate
mother
and amount of time spent
crying
for
real
mother.
What did Harlow find?
Baby monkeys spent
majority
of
time
with
the
cloth
mother
regardless
of where the
food
dispenser
was.
What were the
2
conditions
of Harlow‘s study?
4
baby monkeys had a
wire
food-dispensing
mother
4
baby monkeys had a
cloth
food-dispensing
mother
What type of attachment did the baby monkeys show toward the cloth mother?
Secure based behaviour
What was the
aim
of Harlow’s follow up study?
to investigate
adulthood
affects
of
monkeys
who had been
deprived
of a real mother
What did Harlow find in his follow up study?
All the
monkeys
with
no
real
mother
were more
aggressive
,
less sociable
and
unskilled
at
mating.
Those with only a
wire mother
were
more
dysfunctional
.
What were the
conclusions
of Lorenz’s study?
Evidence for the
critical period
.
Shows early
attachments
can
predict
future
bonds.
Proof for attachment having a
biological basis
.
What were the
conclusions
of Harlow’s study?
Food is
not
as
crucial
as
comfort
when forming attachment.
Shows
early
attachment
can
predict
long
term
social
development.
Animals have
greater
needs
than
food.
What are the
ethical
issues
with these studies?
No
protection
from
harm
psychologically
&
physically
As baby animals were
removed
from
natural
environments
and
mothers
.
What are the
issues
with
generalisability?
Animals
are
not
Humans
.
Humans are
more
cognitively
developed
and have a
higher
level
of
complexity.
Not
capable
of
abstract thought
What is
research
support
for Lorenz?
Regolin
&
Vallortigara
1995
What was
Regolin
&
Vallortigara‘s
study?
Baby
chicks
were exposed to
simple
rotating
shapes
when hatched.
When given the option chicks
always
returned
to
original
shape
they imprinted on.
What do all the
imprinting
studies show?
It is an
innate
mechanism
to imprint on
initial
moving
shape
seen within
critical window
How does Harlow’s research have
real
world
value
?
Helps
social workers
&
clinical psychologists
understand importance of
physical
boding
during
critical window
of a child.
What did
Howe
1998 suggest?
If
physical
bonding
is
not
given during critical window child will
not
develop
normally
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