Chapter 2

• emotional development is the life-long development of skills that allow individual's to control, express, and recognise emotions in an appropriate way
• Attachment is the relationship between an infant and the primary caregiver
• Humans are biologically pre-programmed to form attachment to get cared for
• Harlow found that soft touch is crucial for monkeys to develop attachment
• Harlow separated 8 baby monkeys into 2 groups of 4. One group was given a cloth mother and the other group was given a wire mother
• Babies moved to wire surrogate only when hungry
• Harlow generalised his findings to suggest that contact comfort was also most likely to be a crucial factor in a human infant-caregiver attachment