o theories of social and emotional development – attachment
§ study: emotion over physiological needs with Rhesus monkeys (Harlow, 1958)
§ theory of attachment – Bowlby (1969, 1988)
· definition of attachment
· evolutionary perspective
· monotropy, critical and sensitive periods, maternal deprivation, internal working model
o study: Strange situation to measure attachment (Ainsworth, 1978)
§ Type A – insecure avoidant attachment
§ Type B – secure attachment
§ Type C – insecure resistant attachment
§ Findings about cross cultural patterns of attachment according to van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg (1988)
o impact of enriched and deprived environments on development
§ Case study – wild/feral child, such as Genie, the wild child