Secure attachment

[1] Children with secure attachment feel protected by their caregivers, and they know that they can depend on them to return.

[2] Children who are securely attached typically are visibly upset as their caregivers leave, but they are happy upon their return.

Those who are securely attached have high self-esteem, seek out social connection and support and are able to share their feelings with other people.

[9] Secure attachment has been shown to act as a buffer to determinants of health among preschoolers, including stress and poverty.

Within an adult romantic relationship, secure attachment can mean[11] both people engage in close, bodily contact, disclose information with one another, share discoveries with each other and feel safe when the other is nearby.

The Strange Situation was an experimental procedure developed by Ainsworth to study the variety of attachment forms between one- to two-year-olds and their mothers.

[12] There was a room set up with one-way glass allowing the researcher to observe the interaction.

The children with a secure attachment to their mother would cry for a few minutes but were able to compose themselves and play with the toys.

The baby monkey would choose to snuggle up to the cloth mother and felt secure.

If the experiment was performed again without the cloth mother then the baby monkey would freeze up, scream, and cry.

The children are able to continue to speak their parent's original language whilst at home, but the children can also learn the new language and speak it without an accent, while the parents' accent remains.

Harris claims that children learn these things from their peers in an attempt to fit in with others.