Learning theory provides one explanation of attachment. It suggests that attachment will be between an infant and the person who feeds it. However, the findings of some research studies do not support this explanation.
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Harlow's research with rhesus monkeys became attached to the cloth-covered mother, rather than the wire mother than fed them. He found that the monkeys would show attachment behaviours towards the cloth mother when frightened, rather than the wire mother.
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