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2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology Attachment: Explanations Of Attachment - Learning Theory
This deck covers key concepts and questions related to learning theories of attachment, focusing on classical and operant conditioning as well as the roles of stimuli and responses.
What two learning theories can be used to explain attachment?
Classical + operant conditioning
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Key Terms
Term
Definition
What two learning theories can be used to explain attachment?
Classical + operant conditioning
Classical conditioning is learning through…
Associations
Operant conditioning is learning through…
Reinforcement
Which behaviourist researcher developed the theory of classical conditioning
Pavlov
Which behaviourist researcher developed the theory of operant conditioning?
Skinner
Learning theory suggests infants learn to attach to…
Whoever feeds them
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
What two learning theories can be used to explain attachment? | Classical + operant conditioning |
Classical conditioning is learning through… | Associations |
Operant conditioning is learning through… | Reinforcement |
Which behaviourist researcher developed the theory of classical conditioning | Pavlov |
Which behaviourist researcher developed the theory of operant conditioning? | Skinner |
Learning theory suggests infants learn to attach to… | Whoever feeds them |
What is meant by an unconditioned stimulus? | An unlearnt ‘thing’ |
What is meant by a neutral stimulus | A ‘thing’ which we have no experience / knowledge / response to |
What is meant by an unconditioned response? | An unlearnt / automatic response |
What is meant by a conditioned stimulus? | A learnt ‘thing’ |
What is meant by an conditioned response? | A learnt response |
According to learning theory, milk is what kind of stimulus? | Unconditioned |
According to learning theory, the feeder is what type of stimulus, at first? | Neutral |
According to learning theory, milk acts as what when forming an attachment? | Unconditioned stimulus |
According to learning theory of attachment, what is the unconditioned response? | Pleasure |
According to learning theory of attachment, what is the feeder? | Neutral stimulus |
According to learning theory, the neutral stimulus when learning an attachment is… | The feeder |
A student has written this response: “As soon as the feeder feeds the infant, the infant associates pleasure with the feeder and an attachment” Is this correct or incorrect; why? | Incorrect - feeding needs to be repetitive |
Through repetition of feeding the infant learns to __________ the feeder with food and pleasure | Associate |
What is meant by associate? | Pair / link / put together |
During the conditioning process what is paired together | Neutral stimulus (feeder) + Unconditioned stimulus (food) |
After the conditioning process - what does the feeder become? | Conditioned stimulus |
After the conditioning process - what is the conditioned stimulus? | Feeder |
After the conditioning process - what does pleasure become? | The conditioned response |
After the conditioning process - what is the conditioned response? | Pleasure |