STRENGTHS

• STRENGTHS OF LORENZ'S RESEARCH?

  • real world application
  • research support
• WHAT RESEARCH SUPPORTED LORENZ'S CLAIM?

  Guiton
• WHAT DID GUITON FIND?

  chicks imprinted on yellow washing up gloves and then tried to mate with them as adults
• WHAT DID GUITON'S RESEARCH SUGGEST?

  young animals are born with an innate mechanism to imprint on a moving object presented to them during the critical period
• ISSUE WITH GUITON'S RESEARCH?

  must be cautious when extrapolating animal research to human theories
• WHY IS THERE AN ISSUE OF EXTRAPOLATION WITH GUITON'S RESEARCH?

  humans have far more emotional + social factors that impact attachment
• HOW IS THE REAL WORLD APPLICATION OF LORENZ'S RESEARCH A STRENGTH?

  means it is useful, as it can be used to support fundamental theory in developmental psychology
• HOW DOES LORENZ'S RESEARCH HAVE REAL WORLD APPLICATION?

  provides support for Bowlby's proposition that attachment is innate
• HOW DOES LORENZ'S RESEARCH PROVIDE EVIDENCE FOR BOWLBY'S CLAIMS?

  goslings attached to Lorenz without reward for food, therefore suggesting evolutionary theory has more credit than learning theory in explaining attachment
• ISSUE WITH REAL WORLD APPLICATION OF LORENZ'S RESEARCH?

  chicks learned to mate with own kind, therefore suggesting the effects of imprinting are not as long-lasting as Lorenz believed