Explore: Attachment Behavior In Infants

between infants and their primary caregivers. Developed by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1907–90), the theory posits that infants need to

Attachment disorders are disorders of mood, behavior, and social relationships arising from unavailability of normal socializing care and attention from

stressed. Infants are born with natural behaviors that help them survive. Attachment behavior allows an infant to draw people near them when they are in need

today in the study of infant and toddler behavior and in the fields of infant mental health, treatment of children, and related fields. Attachment theory

Attachment parenting (AP) is a parenting philosophy that proposes methods aiming to promote the attachment of mother and infant not only by maximal parental

remain in their proximity. Attachment is the result of social interaction between an infant and caregiver over a gradual period of time. Infants develop

senses, infants respond to stimuli differently. Vision is significantly worse in infants than in older children. Infant sight tends to be blurry in early

newborn) is an infant in the first 28 days after birth (the term applies to premature, full term, and postmature infants). Infants born prior to 37

mother-infant interactions of three-month-old babies with craniofacial abnormalities and normal infants and observed that the mothers of the infants with

their infant monkeys, the nursery-reared infants remained very different from their mother-reared peers. Psychologically speaking, these infants were slightly