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• disoriented- children display freezing or contradictory behaviours both when parents enter or leave the room.
• insecure resistant- children are clingy and afraid of separation and strangers. They become easily upset or highly distressed when separated from their caregiver.
• insecure avoidant- children don't orient their behaviour towards their caregiver; treat mother and stranger in much the same way.
• secure- infants feel content to explore a strange environment and use their caregivers as a safe base; wary of strangers
• attachments- a deep and enduring emotional bond between a child and their primary caregiver

  ~ infancy is a critical period to form positive attachments
• attachment styles- patterns of attachment that develop during early childhood, which influence how people relate to others throughout life
• Bowlby believed children are 'biologically pre-programmed' to form attachments in infancy.
• Bowlby argues that infants have an inbuilt need to form an attachment with a carer. The quality of this attachment may affect emotional development for the rest of the child’s life.