Post by jkeliar on Oct 6, 2017 10:23:26 GMT
If I was running a study, attachment would be a dependent variable, as I would focus on a way to either implement or degrade that sense between two or more subjects, and then test if that hypothesis would be possible. A possible operational definition of attachment would be: "A significant relationship between a master and a student, a pupil and a teacher, a young ling and its mother, an alpha and a beta, where essentially, there would be a rule of two. By this rule of two, I mean that there would be an alpha which would have an attachment to it's child/offspring, beta. This 'bond mate' would be the first thing/subject that the other goes to in times of fear, hardship, hunger, love, etc.
And if that bond was shown by say, whether a frightened monkey baby would go to a cloth-shaped monkey mother than the subject's real monkey's mother, then I would know that there would be no attachment between those monkeys, even though there should be.
And if that bond was shown by say, whether a frightened monkey baby would go to a cloth-shaped monkey mother than the subject's real monkey's mother, then I would know that there would be no attachment between those monkeys, even though there should be.
