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psychology: paper 1:

psychology paper 1: attachment: explanations - learning theory (behaviourist):

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1. who came up with the theory? Dollard and Miller (1950)
2. what year did Dollard and Miller come up with their theory? 1950
3. what is the theory called? cupboard love
4. what does cupboard love explain? children love to love whoever feeds them through classical and operant conditioning
5. explain how classical conditioning works in cupboard love? UCS = food, UCR = pleasure, NS = caregiver, CS = caregiver, CR = pleasure (the associate caregiver with pleasure from food)
6. explain how operant conditioning works in cupboard love? learning to repeat behaviour (crying) in order to get positive consequences (being fed) using drive reduction theory
7. what is drive reduction theory? infants are born with innate drives such as hunger which only caregiver can reduce (feeding) which is reinforced
8. what is the primary reinforcer? food
9. what is the secondary reinforcer? caregiver
10. how does the learning theory have some explanatory power? although food may not be the central role in attachment it still have value in explaining parts of the development of attachment
11. how is there contradictory evidence in animal studies? Harlow's monkeys as they did not care who provided food
12. how is there contradictory evidence in human studies? Isabelle et al (1989) argues that the level of interactional synchrony leads to attachment
13. how does Bowlby explain that forming attachments is evolutionary? attachment is evolved behaviours for survival including protection from harm and source of food
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