Early attachment behaviour is crucial to understanding later psychiatric problems.

In the third situation, the attachment behavior was put into three groups based on how the child reacted to the mothers return.

However the innate capacity for attachment behavior cannot be lost.

As attachment behaviours change with age, they do so in ways shaped by relationships.

According to Bowlby, almost from the first many children have more than one figure toward whom they direct attachment behaviour.

The focus is the organisation (pattern) rather than quantity of attachment behaviours.

For example, the attachment behaviors of parents offer children their first trust-building experience.

Anxiety, fear, illness, and fatigue will cause a child to increase attachment behaviours.

The internal working models on which attachment behaviour is based show a degree of continuity and stability.

These figures are not treated alike; there is a strong bias for a child to direct attachment behaviour mainly toward one particular person.

Attachment behaviour develops in childhood and endures throughout life, usually directed towards a few specific individuals.

Common attachment behaviours and emotions, displayed in most social primates including humans, are adaptive.

Attachment and attachment behaviors tend to develop between the age of 6 months and 3 years.

By the end of the first year, the infant is able to display a range of attachment behaviours designed to maintain proximity.

Attachment behaviours such as clinging and following decline and self-reliance increases.

Specific attachment behaviours begin with predictable, apparently innate, behaviours in infancy.

By creating stresses designed to activate attachment behaviour, the procedure reveals how very young children use their caregiver as a source of security.

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Bowlby (1980) describes attachment behaviour as that which seeks to maintain strong affectional bonds.

If the caregiver is inaccessible or unresponsive, attachment behaviour is more strongly exhibited.

Bowlby observed that attachment behaviors in children can be triggered by the presence of a rival:

Attachment theory assumes older children and adults retain attachment behaviour, displaying it in stressful situations.

Research published in 2004 showed that the disinhibited form can endure alongside structured attachment behavior (of any style) towards the child's permanent caregivers.

When overt attachment behaviour is at its peak in young children, it is the main attachment figure (usually the mother) who is needed.

There is therefore a lack of "specificity" of attachment figure, the second basic element of attachment behavior.