Describe and Evaluate the Learning Theory into Attachment. (12 marks) According to the learning theory, infants learn to be attached to their primary caregiver through classical conditioning and operant conditioning. By the process of classical conditioning, the baby forms an association between the mother, who is a neutral stimulus, and the feeling of pleasure that comes from being fed, an innate unconditioned response. At first, the baby simply feels comforted by food. However each time he is fed, the mother is there too.
What groceries to purchase, what groceries are unhealthy to purchase when grocery shopping. And last, but not least control and watch what goes into your child’s body, and what should not enter into your child’s body. I also plan to create a fun way of introducing good eating habits that parents can share with their children. How can we make eating healthy fun for our children as well as ourselves. Eating can be made fun.
They had learned a new stimulus response of salivation whenever the door was opened. Pavlov's study can then be applied to explaining childhood attachment. Food, which is an unconditioned stimulus, naturally produces a sense of pleasure, which is an unconditioned response. The person who feeds (which is a conditioned stimulus) the infant becomes associated with the food, which slowly over time allows the infant to associate the 'feeder' with pleasure/ This means that pleasure has now become a conditioned response. This association is the attachment bond between infants and caregivers.
However, in the study done by Harlow, H. F., & Harlow, M. in 1966, it was proven that attachment is equally, if not more importantly, an emotional bond as it is a bond of survival. This was proven in their experiment ‘Harlow’s Monkeys’ by placing a false motherly figure made of wire with a false motherly figure made of cloth in a cage with infant rhesus monkeys. The wire mother had a milk supply and the cloth mother did not. Despite the lack of food, the monkeys gravitated towards the cloth mother in times of distress. The wire mother was approached only when hungry.
One influence for example being the role of learning. Parents, usually the mother, provide food for the child. Therefore, it is obvious that the mothers attitude to food will affect the child’s preferences. If the mother is concerned over health aspects of food she will work harder to make sure her child has a balanced diet. If the mother is less aware or less concerned over health issues such as obesity, she will take less care over the child’s diet.
According to Pierce Hollingsworth (2004), the parents and school should not blame the food marketing for being the main cause of obesity rather than teaching and helping the kids to have good habit of eating. He thought that the responsibilities of the parents and schools were important for educating childhood obesity. However, there are so many problems with his arguments. He did not think about the bad effects of advertising on kids. For example, the food marketing companies usually uses the attractive poster about fast food to get the attention of the kids.
Reinforcement makes it more likely that you will do something again, while punishment makes it less likely. Both of these components can be negative or positive. For example, your mother gives you desert after you have finished all of your vegetables. You know that every time you finish your veggies, she’ll give you a delicious desert. That’s a positive reinforcement.
The babies nurse until 8-9 months old, then they are weaned nutritionally, but not socially for up to two years of age. The pandas are sometimes forced to go hungry because of the reduced food supply in their environment due to human influences. As adults, giant pandas have black and white pigmentation patches, the black part covering their eyes, arms, ears, and legs, while the rest of their bodies are white. Giant pandas are 2-3 feet tall at the shoulder, on four legs, and reach 4-6 feet long. Males can weigh up to 250 lb in the wild, but females rarely reach 220lb.
Ever since 2005 when chefs highlighted the poor nutritional value of school dinners across the country, many parents have been understandably confused about what is best for their child. Some have even opted out of school dinners altogether and provide their child with a packed lunch or allow them to go home for lunch. Is it possible, however, that in this they are completely misguided. We all know that young children need the right balance of nutritious food to grow and develop. Some parents think that home-prepared packed lunches are healthier than school dinners because they can control the contents.
Passage two also writes that children are less active, and that “limitations on advertisements will not make them any thinner.” These reasons indeed prove why adverts cannot be blamed for child obesity. Although a child’s home life does have a large effect of their eating habits, marketers that target the child audience can take partial blame. Passage one explains how when children are surrounded by advertisements, they fall subject to buying the unhealthy foods in places such as vending machines. According to passage one, scientific studies proved that children lack the decision making skills to say no to such advertisement. With these food brands advertising their unhealthy foods on today’s youth, it is hard for children to say no; if the marketing strategies were restricted, then there would be less products that