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Attachment is the strong emotional bond that develops between infant and caregiver
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Attachment is the strong emotional bond that develops between infant and caregiver, providing the infant with emotional security. By the second half of the first year, infants have become attached to familiar people who have responded to their need for physical care and stimulation. Maurer and Maurer (1989) suggested that attachments are welded in the heat of interactions. (www.psychology.sunysb.edu) In other words, attachments depend on interaction between two people rather than simply being together. Infants are physically helpless and need adults to feed, care for, and protect them and without such assistance they can not survive. So infants are born with a tendency to form an attachment in order to increase their chances of survival. According to Schaffer (1996) there are certain stages in infant development: · Pre-attachment phase: this stage last until about three month of age. At this stage, infant produce similar responses to all objects. Towards the end of...
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