The Study of the Attachment by Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth
The study of the Attachment by Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth
The word love brings us many meanings. But how do we learn to love? Is it something that we born with, like kind of pre-programmed behaviour or is it a something that we learn during our development? Do we bound to others because of something that we receive on exchange or the constant proximity forms the bound?
The comprehension of what defines emotional attachments or the emotional bounding to others, either in humans or other species, proofs that such emotions are not only a compound of feelings but tools that nature used in order to make us to evolve and preserve life flourishing (Custance, Deborah 2012). Anomalies on the individual process of attachment could causes further serious damage on the development and vice-versa. It leaded psychologist to find answers on how it occurs. What is attachment and how it happens? What is the spectrum of normality? Those questions were the challenge faced by two historical contributions to this comprehension.
On The development of theories of attachment there are some routes that were key important influencing and establishing the ground of studies. The influence of the Ethology and the principle of Imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the 19th century, (Spalding, D. A. 1873) and developed later by Konrad Lorenz. (Lorenz KZ 1937) The “Imprinting”, is the process or kind of phase-sensitive learning that occurs at after born age or a particular life stage, that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behaviour, where animals learn to follow their caregivers, “Imprinting” is the factor that creates a bound between them.
In a very similar direction we found a important contribution by John Bowlby research, proposition that human infants possess inbuilt or innate tendencies to form emotionally and bound to caregivers (Bowlby, 1953).
On the Psychoanalysis area, theorists such Ana Freud and Dorothy Burlingham
The word love brings us many meanings. But how do we learn to love? Is it something that we born with, like kind of pre-programmed behaviour or is it a something that we learn during our development? Do we bound to others because of something that we receive on exchange or the constant proximity forms the bound?
The comprehension of what defines emotional attachments or the emotional bounding to others, either in humans or other species, proofs that such emotions are not only a compound of feelings but tools that nature used in order to make us to evolve and preserve life flourishing (Custance, Deborah 2012). Anomalies on the individual process of attachment could causes further serious damage on the development and vice-versa. It leaded psychologist to find answers on how it occurs. What is attachment and how it happens? What is the spectrum of normality? Those questions were the challenge faced by two historical contributions to this comprehension.
On The development of theories of attachment there are some routes that were key important influencing and establishing the ground of studies. The influence of the Ethology and the principle of Imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the 19th century, (Spalding, D. A. 1873) and developed later by Konrad Lorenz. (Lorenz KZ 1937) The “Imprinting”, is the process or kind of phase-sensitive learning that occurs at after born age or a particular life stage, that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behaviour, where animals learn to follow their caregivers, “Imprinting” is the factor that creates a bound between them.
In a very similar direction we found a important contribution by John Bowlby research, proposition that human infants possess inbuilt or innate tendencies to form emotionally and bound to caregivers (Bowlby, 1953).
On the Psychoanalysis area, theorists such Ana Freud and Dorothy Burlingham
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