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Toddler Unit Name:
Young Children’s Love Objects
Directions: Answer all questions completely.
1. Who is Linus?
What are his love objects?
2. According to some child experts what needs do love objects satisfy for infants and toddlers?
3. Describe the kinds of objects babies prefer.
4. Explain what psychologist John Bowlby calls “primary object clinging.”
5. Answer the following questions about Harry Harlow’s experiments:
a. What “mock” mother did the baby monkeys prefer?
b. What did other experiments with monkeys show about the monkeys’ bond with the cloth mother?
c. What did Harlow discover about baby monkeys raised on a bare wire floor?
d. What did Harlow’s experiments suggest about forming love attachments?
e. Why do toddlers get satisfaction from cuddly dolls, blankets, or stuffed animals?
6. Who is a baby’s first love attachment and why does this attachment form?
7. As a child gets older, what are the child’s strongest attachments?
8. What happens if a child does not form an early attachment to a primary care giver?
9. What do young children tend to do with the people or things they love?
10. By late childhood, how do children show affection?
11. During the preschool years, for whom do children feel affection?
12. By the time a person reaches adolescence, who do they turn their attention to?
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