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Mary d. salter ainsworth university of virginia in forecasting subsequent. Bowlby"s (1969) ethological-evolutionary attach- ment theory implies that it is an essential part of the ground plan of the human species as well as that of many other species for an infant to become attached to a mother figure. This figure need not be the natural mother but can be anyone who plays the role of principal caregiver. This ground plan is fulfilled, except under extraordinary circumstances when the baby experiences too little interaction with any one caregiver to support the formation of an attachment. These advances have been much aided by a stan- dardized laboratory situation that was devised to supplement a naturalistic, longitudinal investiga- tion of the development of infant-mother attach- ment in the first year of life. This strange situa- tion, as we entitled it, has proved to be an excel- lent basis for the assessment of such attachment in 1-year-olds (ainsworth, blehar, waters, & wall,
