Explanations of attachment

Question 1

What is Operant Conditioning

Answer 1

Learning process that uses rewards and punishments to change behaviour

Question 2

What is Classical conditioning

Answer 2

Learning through association, a neutral stimulus (mother) becomes associated with a stimulus (food) that naturally produces a behaviour.

Question 3

Explain Dollard and Miller’s Drive reductionist theory

Answer 3

Suggests that infants develop attachments to caregivers primarily becasue they associate the caregiver with the reduction of basic drives like hunger.

Question 4

what is Bowlby’s view of attachment ?

Answer 4

Argured that it was an evolutionary survivial instinct shared by all humans. This meant attachment is not learned, it is an adaptive behaviour passed down through our DNA

Question 5

What are the 6 major features of attachment proposed by Bowlby

Answer 5

1.Attachment is adaptive
2.Monotropy(one speccial attachment)
3.Quality not quantity
4.internal working model (schemas)
5.The critical period(Before 2and a half)
6.Social Releasers