Animal studies Attachment 2 Psychology

In the research carried out with geese, who took the parts of the mother figure?

• Watson

• Pavlov

• Lorenz

• Skinner

What evidence was there that imprinting onto different objects had occurred?

• Ignored all objects

• Followed natural mother / Lorenz

• Stayed in one place

• Did not imprint

What is the concept of imprinting as studied by Konrad Lorenz?

• Learned behavior to follow any object

• Innate readiness to follow the first moving object

• Random selection of an object to follow

• Conditioned response to a sound

What year did Konrad Lorenz conduct his study on imprinting?

• 1925

• 1935

• 1945

• 1955

Who found that chicks would imprint on yellow gloves used for feeding them.?

• Lorenz

• Guiton

• Darwin

• Pavlov

What concept is being applied when farmers use a fleece from a deceased lamb to help an orphan lamb?

• Conditioning

• Imprinting

• Habituation

• Sensitization

What did monkeys with towelling mothers do more of, according to Harlow's findings?

• Explored more

• Ate more

• Slept more

• Played more

What was the main focus of Harlow's experiment?

• Attachment: Food or Security

• Learning: Reward or Punishment

• Behavior: Nature or Nurture

• Development: Growth or Decline

What is a potential ethical issue in animal studies of attachment?

• Lack of funding

• Separation from the mother causing emotional harm

• Difficulty in training animals

• Animals refusing to participate

What is a limitation of animal studies on attachment?

• Cannot apply to humans, especially different species of animal

• Attachment behaviors in animals are easily generalizable to humans:

• • Animal studies provide definitive conclusions about human attachment behaviors.

• • Animal studies can be easily replicated in various species without any concerns.