Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO In 1969, American Psychologist Mary Ainsworth developed a new procedure for studying attachment types in infants. She called her procedure the […]
Developmental Psychology
Schaffer & Emerson’s Four Stages of Attachment
Schaffer & Emerson (1964) conducted an observational study of 60 children in Glasgow, Scotland, to understand how babies form and develop attachments. They note that […]
Classical Conditioning
An Introduction to Classical Conditioning Classical Conditioning (also known as Pavlovian Conditioning) was discovered by accident. Ivan Pavlov – a Russian Physiologist, and the first […]
Operant Conditioning
An Introduction to Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning) Operant conditioning, also known as Instrumental Conditioning, informs us of the interaction between environmental stimuli and our behaviours. […]
Steinberg et al. (1982) ‘High School Students in the Labor Force’
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Whilst Western societies argue vehemently against child labour, there seems to be a very different attitude to adolescents partaking in the […]
Communal Parenting (Bettelheim, 1964)
Is a two-parent family unit actually necessary for children to develop into successful adults? Western culture has traditionally encouraged the ‘nuclear family’ – a household […]