Establishing attachment is very important. “The attachment bond is the unique emotional relationship between your baby and you as his or her primary caretaker.” (helpguide.org/articles/secure-attachment/how-to-build-a-secure-attachment-bond-with-your-baby.htm). Patterns of interaction with children shape their minds and brains, leading to future relationships. Many new mothers assume that their baby is attached to them because they gave birth to them. This is a myth. Unless the mother listens to the infant’s emotional cues, they wont understand their needs. Another myth mothers think are responding to a baby’s every need will make them spoiled. This is far from true. Responding to a baby’s cry in the middle of the night will not only comfort
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The cognitive view is where psychologists just want to basically know what makes babies think and then the internal process to their mind. Object permanence is when infants can understand that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed. “The cognitive view on attachment suggests that infants should know what object permanence is, if they are unable to then they cant develop a type of attachment.” (Rathus, 117). The behavioral view of attachment involves classical and operant conditioning. This is where an infant would associate their parent with gratifying things such as food or being played with. If the infant cries and the parent comes to help the child such as feed them, the infant will associate the parents to fix their physiological needs and will learn to go to the parent to help them. The psychoanalytic view of attachment goes deeper then the behavioral view. This view states that the mother is the reinforcer to the infant. Reinforcement is a term used in operant conditioning that increases the likelihood that a response will occur. For example, reinforcement might involve presenting praise from the mother immediately after a child puts away his or her toys. This suggests that the mother will become a type of “love object” which will form the beginning of all later attachments. It’s important to develop trust between the infant and mother within the first year because that’s what fosters attachment. The final theory of attachment is the ethological view. This view states that attachment is an instinctive response to a certain stimulus, this isn't only in humans it’s in many animals as well. Some researchers have noticed that when a baby cries it makes the mother immediately want to go help the child. Which proves that it’s an instinctive response. Another interesting aspect of the ethological view is when the infant is two months
The cognitive view is where psychologists just want to basically know what makes babies think and then the internal process to their mind. Object permanence is when infants can understand that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed. “The cognitive view on attachment suggests that infants should know what object permanence is, if they are unable to then they cant develop a type of attachment.” (Rathus, 117). The behavioral view of attachment involves classical and operant conditioning. This is where an infant would associate their parent with gratifying things such as food or being played with. If the infant cries and the parent comes to help the child such as feed them, the infant will associate the parents to fix their physiological needs and will learn to go to the parent to help them. The psychoanalytic view of attachment goes deeper then the behavioral view. This view states that the mother is the reinforcer to the infant. Reinforcement is a term used in operant conditioning that increases the likelihood that a response will occur. For example, reinforcement might involve presenting praise from the mother immediately after a child puts away his or her toys. This suggests that the mother will become a type of “love object” which will form the beginning of all later attachments. It’s important to develop trust between the infant and mother within the first year because that’s what fosters attachment. The final theory of attachment is the ethological view. This view states that attachment is an instinctive response to a certain stimulus, this isn't only in humans it’s in many animals as well. Some researchers have noticed that when a baby cries it makes the mother immediately want to go help the child. Which proves that it’s an instinctive response. Another interesting aspect of the ethological view is when the infant is two months