ANIMAL STUDIESS

• ANIMAL STUDIES

  Carried out for ethical or practical reasons (animals breed faster, so comparisons can be made across generations)
• SOCIAL RELEASERS

  Innate 'cute' behaviours that encourage attention from adults, e.g. smiling, cooing, gripping
• WHICH RESEARCHERS SHOWED THAT THE EFFECTS OF ISOLATION CAN BE REVERSED?

  HARLOW & SUOMI (1972)
• WHICH SIDE OF THE NATURE NURTURE DEBATE DID LORENZ & HARLOW SUPPORT?

  NATURE
• MATERNAL DEPRIVATION

  Lack of a primary attachment figure
• COURTSHIP BEHAVIOUR

  Behaviour designed to initiate mating
• OUTLINE ONE PRACTICAL REASON FOR USING ANIMALS RATHER THAN HUMANS WHEN STUDYING ATTACHMENT BEHAVIOUR

  Animals breed fast so the result can be seen within one generation
• SUGGEST ONE ETHICAL REASON FOR USING ANIMALS RATHER THAN HUMANS WHEN STUDYING ATTACHMENT BEHAVIOUR

  You can put animals in situations such as deprivation whereas it would be unethical to do this to humans