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Evaluation:
There has been a failure to replicate
- Kopek did not find the same evidence of interactional synchrony in very young infants.
The intentionality of infant behaviour is supported.
- Abravanel and DeYong observed infants interacting with two objects, one stimulating tongue movements and the other, a mouth opening and closing, two groups of infants 5wks and 12wks made little response.
- This suggests infants don't replicate things from inanimate objects.
Issues with testing infant behaviour
- Infants may move their mouth involuntarily and randomly.
- This highlights the difficulty in testing infant behaviour.
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Animal Studies
Evaluation:
The results of Harlow CAN be generalised to humans.
- The findings were demonstrated in the findings of Schaffer and Emerson, which emphasised the importance of sensitive responding in the development of attachments.
- This shows that animal studies can give good pointers, but human studies must be done to confirm.
There are criticisms of the concept of imprinting
- The og concept of imprinting was that an image is stamped irreversibly on the nervous system. It is now believed that imprinting is more flexible
Research support for imprinting..
- Lorenz concept of imprinting has been replicated in studies with other bird species.
- GuitON found that chickens, exposed to yellow rubber gloves for feeding, imprinted on the gloves.
- This shows young animals are not born with a predisposition to imprint on a specific kind of object, but develop an imprinting behaviour to any moving object within a critical window of development.
- Therefore, Guiton's findings provide clear support for Lorenz's conclusions.
Lorenz
- Left a clutch of goose eggs with the mother and incubated the other clutch himself.
- When the incubated eggs hatched, they saw Lorenz, imprinting on him.
- If goslings did not see a moving object during the critical period, they did not imprint.
- Lorenz noted that this process is irreversible and long-lasting.
Harlow
- created two wire 'mothers' for baby monkeys, one wrapped in cloth to provide comfort and one which provided food.
- found that the monkeys spent the majority of their time with the comfort mother, only leaving to feed.
- when frightened, they went to the comfort mother.
- all the motherless monkeys were disturbed, sexually abnormal and abusive towards their own offspring.
- the motherless monkeys could recover, but only if they spent time with other monkeys before 3 months.
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