attachment

• attachment:

  an emotional relationship between two people in which seek closeness and feel more secure when in the presence of that attachment figure
• Feldman and Eidelman:

  • babies have a periodical 'alert' phase and signal that they want attention, mothers usually respond to infant alertness 2/3 of the time
  • 3 months on, interactions become more frequent
• reciprocity:

  a description of how two people act.
• secondary drive hypothesis - Dollard and Miller

  We have primary drives

  This basic need is met by the mother, then this satisfaction is associated with her presence, leading the infant to seek the mother's presence.