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Attachment. What is more important to a child’s healthy development?. FOOD. LOVE. On a blank piece of notebook paper, please write a well written paragraph answering the question above: -Use at least 3 examples from CLASS that back-up and support your position.

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  1. Attachment

  2. What is more important to a child’s healthy development? FOOD LOVE On a blank piece of notebook paper, please write a well written paragraph answering the question above: -Use at least 3 examples from CLASS that back-up and support your position.

  3. Early Theories about Attachment • Early in the 20th century, showing affection towards children wasn’t considered valuable. • John Watson- “When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that mother love is a dangerous instrument.”

  4. Child Attachment Disorder • Describe disorders of mood, behavior, and social relationships arising from a failure to form normal attachments to primary care giving figures in early childhood, • Results: problematic social expectations and behaviors. • Examples: • Neglect • Abuse • abrupt separation from caregivers after 6 months of age but before about three years of age • frequent change of caregivers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsRsmEDuqy8

  5. Harry Harlow • Original attachment theory: means for a child to obtain food, relieve thirst and avoid pain. • 1960s- studied effects of environmental deprivation on Rhesus monkeys.

  6. The Experiment • Took newborn monkeys away from their mothers just hours after birth and left them to be raised by fake mothers.

  7. Harlow Experiments • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrNBEhzjg8I • How do the monkeys behavior differ when you compare their reactions to both mothers?

  8. Results • Monkeys tended to spend significantly more time on the cloth mother compared to the wire mother. • What does this show you about the effects of love and affection?

  9. More Research on Attachment • Mary Ainsworth- 1978-“Strange Situation” experiment • Goal: Study and measure different levels of attachment found in toddlers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s608077NtNI

  10. The Experiment • Used mothers and infants from over 100 American families. • Infants between 12-18 months • Go through a 3 minute process: 1. Parent and infant alone. 2. Stranger joins parent and infant. 3. Parent leaves infant and stranger alone. 4. Parent returns and stranger leaves. 5. Parent leaves; infant left completely alone. 6. Stranger returns. 7. Parent returns and stranger leaves.

  11. Observations • 4 categories of behavior were used to classify different forms of attachment: • Separation anxiety • Infant’s willingness to explore • Stranger anxiety • Reunion behavior

  12. Results • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnFKaaOSPmk&feature=related

  13. Effects of Poor Attachment • Poor conscience development • Poor Impulse control • Poor Self-concept (ego) • Poor interpersonal interactions (social) • Problems expressing feelings • Poor cognitive processing • Higher anxiety levels • Poor eye contact • Withdrawal

  14. Developmental Problems “It is most difficult for the unattached child to grow socially. They have great difficulty learning to build and maintain relationships of any sort. Having received little love, they have trouble giving it. They have not learned to care for others. They continue in their babyish ways---self-centered and acting impulsively. They have difficulty incorporating rules and laws.” Their first concern is "What's in it for me?”

  15. What is more important to a child’s healthy development? FOOD LOVE Do you still feel the same way as the beginning of class? -Please add an additional few sentences explaining why your perception of has/has not changed.

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