Infant-Mother Attachment Analysis

Babies are mysterious, fascinating, little creatures. They form in about nine months, and roughly a year after birth they have developed into little adults, doing many of the same things as adults. When I read Infant-Mother Attachment by Mary D Salter Ainsworth, I thought mostly of my niece, a baby I have seen develop greatly in her first year of life and how my single sister played a part in it. Janelle John-Epps was born November 13, 2014, so she is about a year old now. If she was a part of the study in the article, she would be in group B. This is a certainty because my sister, Lennisa John, held her often, always showed Janelle an expressive face, and responded to her every sound. At some point, when I asked her why she does not keep a journal, like most of the high school baby development classes taught me, she replied that she could hear the

The testing would not include humans because there are rules against that and because we already know what happens without parents thanks to the case study on Genie. I think a few different animals from each animal class should be studied. Maybe four groups from mammals, including at least one sea mammal, four from reptiles, four from fish, birds, and amphibians. The control groups can be studied in the animal’s native habitat. Then an infant should be separated from its mother and either taken to a lab with conditions as similar to their habitats as possible or left in its habitat alone, without any kind of interaction of its own species. If the infants are left in their habitat and all of the infants interact with a different creature, begin acting like said creature, which acts as a mother-figure, I will believe Bowlby’s theory to be true. If the infants are brought to lab, which I think would give the best, truest results but would be much more expensive, and are not interacted with, like Genie, I think they will develop slowly, but eventually reach their full