Crying reinforced because caregiver produces a response
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Negative reinforcement
Caregivers response reinforced because crying stops
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Drive reduction
Attachment is secondary drive learned by association with hunger
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Counter-evidence from animal studies
Lorenz and Harlow showed that feeding is not the key to attachment
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Counter-evidence from studies on humans
Primary attachment figure not always the person who does the feeding (Schaffer and Emerson) - quality of attachment related to interactional synchrony not feeding
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Some conditioning may be involved
Conditioning (association with comfort) may influence the choice of primary attachment figure
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Counter-point
Babies are more active in attachment than conditioning explanations suggest (Feldman and Eidelman)
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