Research Into Learning Theory

Question 1

What did Dollar and Miller argue?(feeding of babies)

Answer 1

1st year, babies are fed generally by their main carer to become associated with the removal of hunger - supports idea attachments learned through OC

Question 2

What did Schaffer and emmerson find?

Answer 2

39% of cases, mother, usually the main carer, wasn’t main attachment figure suggesting that feeding is not the primary explanation of attachment - against LT

Question 3

What did Fox study?

Answer 3

Studied attachment bonds between mothers, babies and metapelets on Israeli kibbutzim

Question 4

What are metapelets?

Answer 4

Specially trained full time carers of new born babies, allowing the mother to work

Question 5

What did Fox find?

Answer 5

Generally, children were more attached to their mothers than the metapelets