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    Attachment is an emotional bond between two people, characterized by behaviors like seeking proximity, distress during separation, joy upon reunion, and looking to caregivers for approval. Babies form attachments through a process called imprinting, where they attach to the first large moving object they see, usually their mother, within 13-16 hours of birth. This imprinting process has a critical period of 32 hours - if attachment doesn't occur within this window, it may not happen. Imprinting evolved to promote survival by encouraging young animals to remain close to their mothers for protection.

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    Attachment is an emotional bond between two people, characterized by behaviors like seeking proximity, distress during separation, joy upon reunion, and looking to caregivers for approval. Babies form attachments through a process called imprinting, where they attach to the first large moving object they see, usually their mother, within 13-16 hours of birth. This imprinting process has a critical period of 32 hours - if attachment doesn't occur within this window, it may not happen. Imprinting evolved to promote survival by encouraging young animals to remain close to their mothers for protection.

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    Attachment is an emotional bond between two people, characterized by behaviors like seeking proximity, distress during separation, joy upon reunion, and looking to caregivers for approval. Babies form attachments through a process called imprinting, where they attach to the first large moving object they see, usually their mother, within 13-16 hours of birth. This imprinting process has a critical period of 32 hours - if attachment doesn't occur within this window, it may not happen. Imprinting evolved to promote survival by encouraging young animals to remain close to their mothers for protection.

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    Development Psychology: Attachment Attachment is an emotional bond between 2 people that endures over time Maccoby defines attachment

    with behaviour like Seeking proximity Distress on separation Joy on reunion General orientation of behaviour towards caregivers (baby looks at mum for approval)

    How do babies form attachment? Konrad Lorenz (zoologist) - He studied attachments in animals and called it imprinting. Imprinting is the tendency to attach to the first large moving object normally 13-16 hours after birth. He argued that imprinting had to take place within the critical period. If it didnt happen within 32 hours, it would not happen at all. Imprinting is important for survival of mobile species of animals as mothers move around to forage and escape predators and young remain close to survive. Hence behaviours involving following promote survival of young and evolved via natural selection.

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