AO1

• Cupboard love theory

  • Children learning to love whoever feeds them
  • Behaviour is not innate
• Classical conditioning

  • Like Pavlov and his dogs
  • Ucs - food
  • Ucr - pleasure
  • Ns - caregiver (gives baby food)
  • Cs - caregiver
  • Cr - pleasure
• Operant conditioning

  • Positive reinforcement - baby cries and is rewarded with food and attention therefore encouraging them to repeat. From then on the baby seeks to be with the caregiver as they are a source of reward
  • Negative reinforcement - caregiver responds to crying by giving the baby food to make them stop (reinforcement for the caregiver)
• Primary drive - food

  • Food is the reason the baby’s behaviour is driven in the way that it is
  • The main thing they want is food
• Secondary drive - caregiver

  • The caregiver is associated with being able to take away the infants discomfort and reward them because they supply the food