6. Attachment is the process in which the individual shows behaviors that promote contact with a specific person. Infants go through the phases of asocial, indiscriminant, specific, and multiple attachments. Ainsworth identified avoidant, secure, and ambivalent types of infant- parent attachment. Approaches to the study of attachment focus on separation distress and contact comfort.
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