The Infant-Caregiver Emotional Relationship
• Attachment:
• An emotional bond between
children and their caregivers.
• Develops around 0 to 0 months
• Separation anxiety
• The distress that most children
develop, at about 0 to 0 months of
age, when their primary caregivers
temporarily leave them with
strangers.
• Contact comfort
• In primates, the innate pleasure
derived from close physical
contact; it is the basis of the
infant's first attachment. It is not
only crucial for newborns, it
continues to be important
throughout life, releasing a flood
of pleasure-producing and stressreducing endorphins