Attachment theory is a psychological theory which provides a framework allowing for discussion and classification of relationships between humans.
Attachment, is the bond and relationship between two individuals. Children, have a basic evolved need to form attachments with individuals who provide security and physical needs, including food, clothing and shelter. Harlow’s young monkey study shows that contact comfort is as important as the basic need for nourishment when frightened the monkeys would cling to the cloth mother for reassurance rater than the wire one which fed them. (Oates, Open University 2015e). John Bowlby, a founder of attachment theory — believed that Children construct mental representations of what is expected from