Editing Attachment theory (section)

====Behaviourism====
In 1969, Gerwitz discussed how mother and child could provide each other with positive reinforcement experiences through their mutual attention, thereby learning to stay close together. This explanation would make it unnecessary to posit innate human characteristics fostering attachment.<ref name= "Gewirtz">{{cite journal| vauthors = Gewirtz N|year=1969|title=Potency of a social reinforcer as a function of satiation and recovery| url = https://archive.org/details/sim_developmental-psychology_1969-01_1_1/page/2|journal= Developmental Psychology|volume= 1|pages= 2–13|doi= 10.1037/h0026802}}</ref> Learning theory, ([[behaviourism]]), saw attachment as a remnant of dependency with the quality of attachment being merely a response to the caregiver's cues. The main predictors of attachment quality are parents being sensitive and responsive to their children. When parents interact with their infants in a warm and nurturing manner, their attachment quality increases. The way that parents interact with their children at four months is related to attachment behaviour at 12 months, thus it is important for parents' sensitivity and responsiveness to remain stable. The lack of sensitivity and responsiveness increases the likelihood for attachment disorders to development in children.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Volling |first=B |date=2002 |title=Parents' emotional availability and infant emotional competence: Predictors of parent-infant attachment and emerging self-regulation. |url=https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-06713-010 |journal=Journal of Family Psychology |volume=164 |issue=4 |pages=447–465 |doi=10.1037/0893-3200.16.4.447 |pmid=12561291 |via=APA PsycArticles|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Behaviourists saw behaviours like crying as a random activity meaning nothing until reinforced by a caregiver's response. To behaviourists, frequent responses would result in more crying. To attachment theorists, crying is an inborn attachment behaviour to which the caregiver must respond if the infant is to develop emotional security. Conscientious responses produce security which enhances autonomy and results in less crying. Ainsworth's research in Baltimore supported the attachment theorists' view.<ref>[[#Karen98|Karen]] pp. 166–73.</ref>

In the last decade, [[Behavior analysis of child development|behaviour analysts]] have constructed models of attachment based on the importance of [[Contingency (philosophy)|contingent]] relationships. These behaviour analytic models have received some support from research<ref name="kassow">{{cite journal| vauthors = Kassow DZ, Dunst CJ|year=2004|title= Relationship between parental contingent-responsiveness and attachment outcomes|journal= Bridges|volume= 2|issue= 4|pages= 1–17}}</ref> and meta-analytic reviews.<ref name="dunst">{{cite journal| vauthors = Dunst CJ, Kassow DZ |year=2008|title= Caregiver Sensitivity, Contingent Social Responsiveness, and Secure Infant Attachment|journal=Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention|volume= 5|issue=1|pages= 40–56|doi=10.1037/h0100409|issn=1554-4893}}</ref>