LEARNING THEORY OF ATTACHMENT (Pages 76-77; Year 1 Textbook)

STARTER (complete in the first 10 mins of the lesson):

Watch this revision video created by my old year 13’s on the Behaviourist explanation for phobias. This will be a useful refresher for the behaviourist approach in psychology. Focus on the process and not so much the fact that the topic is on ‘phobias’; as the process can be applied to the learning theory of attachment.

LINK TO THE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/s6uJWn1pFMw

Learning objectives:

describe how learning theory explains attachment
apply the theories of classical conditioning and operant conditioning to attachment behaviour
describe research studies relating to learning theory and attachment