learning theory attachment

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      • CLASSICAL CONDITIONING IN ATTACHENT
      • Food = UCS ➡ Pleasure = UCR
      • Carer = NS ➡ NR from baby
      • Carer (NS) + Food (UCS) overtime ➡ Pleasure = UCR
      • Carer = CS ➡ Pleasure = CR
      • NEGATIVE REINFORCMENT
      • Carer receives this as the babies crying stops when they respond
      • This is to ' escape ' from unpleasant behaviour
      • The reinforcement between CG + baby = mutual
    • the AO3 points for learning theory
      1. counter evidence from animal studies
      2. counter evidence from human research
      3. support for importance of conditioning
      4. learning theory ignores other factors linked with attachment
    • counter-evidence from human research
      • research with human infants show feeding is not important for attachment. Schaffer and Emerson's study showed babies were attached to their mothers regardless of who fed them. Isabella found high levels of interactional synchrony predicted the quality of attachment. Shows food isnt the main factor of human attachments.
    • learning theory ignores other factors linked with attachment
      • research in early infant and caregiver attachments suggests quality of attachments and is associated with reciprocity and interactional synchrony. studies show best quality of attachment is with sensitive carers that pick up infants' signals and respond.hard to reconcile these findings with cupboard love.if attachment was based on feeding there would be no purpose of important interactions and we wouldn't find any relationship between them and the quality of caregiver and infant interaction.
    • Counter evidence from animal studies
       
      • Lorenz's research into geese shows the geese imprinted before they got fed and maintained those attachments no matter who fed them. In Hallows study the monkeys preferred the warm blanket-covered wire mother compared to the cold-wired mother even if that was the one feeding them. this shows animals don't get attachment by feeding (cupboard love) but by comfort and security, this would link to humans too since rhesus monkeys are mammals.
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