Early Socialization and Parenting Styles

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Early Socialization andParenting Styles
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• How and Why do we form attachments to others?
• American Psychologist Harry Harlow tried to
  answer this question by experimenting with rhesus
  monkeys.

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• Harlow raised a baby monkey with two surrogate
  monkeys which he made.
• Both mama monkeys were made of wood and wire.
  One of the mothers was covered with soft terry
  cloth.

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Rhesus Monkeys
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• In some cases the terrycloth mother was given a
  bottle in other cases the wire mother was given a
  bottle.
• The baby monkeys overwhelmingly attached to the
  cloth monkey whether she had food or not.

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• If something frightening were put in the cage the
  monkey would run to the cloth mother.
• Harlow concluded that the monkeys became attached
  to the cloth mother because of their need for
  contact or tactile touch.

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Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlbys experiment in
(1991)

• Ainsworth and Bowlsby experimented on 1 year olds
  to study the development of early emotional
  attachment patterns.

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• The experimentwould have mothers of 1 year old
  children leave the room , thus leaving their
  child surrounded by strangers.

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4 types of attachment patterns

• Ainsworth and Bowlby identified 4 types of
  attachment patterns in young children.

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• Secure Attachment- The child will welcome the
  mother back after being left with a stranger.
• Avoidant Attachment the child avoids or ignores
  mom upon her return.
• Resistant Attachment The child doesnt reject
  mom but appears angry that she left.
• Disorganized- Child act in ways which are a
  combination of the other the other types.