Lecture 3d: Social Development
last updated 2/9/2004

I.  Attachment and Social Development

                A.  Animals: Imprinting (read more)
                        1.  Konrad Lorenz's work with ducklings: on land | on land 2 | in water | in error
                        2.  Speed of response
                        3.  Recent studies
                        3.  Application

                B.  Humans (and other primates) ...curious George

                        1.  Freud: Cupboard theory of mothering
                                a.  Tested by Harlow using wire and terry cloth mother substitutes
                                b.  show in-Psych video | picture

                        2.  Bowlby: Attachment theory based on comfort

                        3.  Ainsworth: Strange situation paradigm yielded three attachment styles (PsychInquiry Animation)
                                a. Securely attached
                                b. Insecure-avoidant
                                c. Insecure ambivalent

                        4.  Stability of attachment

                        5.  What happens if there is little or no attachment?

                                a. Harlow's experiments with motherless monkeys

                                b. Humans reared in inadequate institutions
                                        1.  Victor, the wild boy of Aveyron (France, 1800)
                                        2.  Amal and Kamala (India, 1920)
                                        3.  Genie (California, 1970)

                                c. Divorce

                                d. Day care