1. Early Socialization and Parenting Styles

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

3. 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.

4. Rhesus Monkeys

5. 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.

6. 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”.

7. Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby’s experiment in (1991) Ainsworth and Bowlsby experimented on 1 year olds to study the development of early emotional attachment patterns.

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

9. 4 types of attachment patterns Ainsworth and Bowlby identified 4 types of attachment patterns in young children.

10. 1.Secure Attachment- The child will welcome the mother back after being left with a stranger. 2.Avoidant Attachment – the child avoids or ignores mom upon her return. 3.Resistant Attachment –The child doesn’t reject mom but appears angry that she left. 4.Disorganized- Child act in ways which are a combination of the other the other types.