Research on the importance of mothers to attachment security in the Metera Babies Centre in Athens, (Vorria et al. 2003) found that 66% of infants who had been reared in residential care from birth showed disorganized patterns of attachment. ... Indeed later studies into attachments in daycare centres have found that children can achieve secure attachments with non-parental caregivers (Howes et al, 1988). ...

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The well-used term "identity crisis," originates from Erik Erikson's fifth stage, identity versus confusion, in his eight stages of epigenetic personality development. Presumably occurring during late adolescence, the successful resolution of this crisis develops a healthy identity and a strong s...

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The visual cliff is an experiment designed by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk (1960) to study the presence of depth perception in children, Campos et al (2000) suggest that children with more crawling experience regardless of when they start crawling refuse to cross the visual cliff earlier suggesting that their depth perception develops quicker than children who are not afforded the opportunity for ample crawling. ...

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