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A team led by Michael Rutter found that disorders of this phenomenon were rare in Romanian-English orphans born during the Ceauşescu (“cho-SHESS-koo”) regime. Harry Harlow studied this phenomenon in rhesus macaques by constructing cloth-and-wire “surrogates,” which inspired (10[1])John Bowlby’s (-5[1])theory of this phenomenon. (10[2])In an experiment (10[1])studying (-5[1])this phenomenon, a stranger talked to a parent before the parent left the stranger with their child. (10[1])Mary Ainsworth’s “strange situation” experiment studied this phenomenon, whose three “styles” are “secure,” (10[2])“anxious-ambivalent,” and (10[1])“anxious-avoidant.” (10[1])For (10[1])10 points, name this feeling that an infant feels toward a caregiver. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: attachment [accept attachment theory; accept attachment styles; accept secure attachment, anxious-avoidant attachment, or anxious-ambivalent attachment; prompt on affection; prompt on familial bonds]
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