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• Counter-evidence from animal studies

  One limitation of learning theory explanations for attachment is lack of support from studies conducted on animals
• For example, Lorenz's geese imprinted on the first moving object they saw regardless of whether this object was associated with food
• Harlow's monkeys displayed attachment behaviour towards a soft surrogate 'mother' over a wire one which provided milk
• This shows that factors other than association with food are important in the formation of attachments