Which of the following statements is true about attachment?
A) Contemporary research indicates that an infant's emotional tie to the mother is the foundation of all later relationships.
B) Because feeding is an important context for building a relationship, attachment depends on hunger satisfaction.
C) Although the parent-infant bond is vitally important, later development is influenced not just by early attachment experiences but also by the continuing quality of the parent-child relationship.
D) Rhesus monkeys reared with terry-cloth and wire-mesh "surrogate mothers" clung to whichever mother-substitute held their bottle and fed them, regardless of the substitute's softness.

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While an infant's emotional tie to the mother is important, later development is also influenced by continuing quality of the parent-child relationship. Additionally, research has shown that attachment does not depend solely on hunger satisfaction and is more complex than just the feeding context. The study with the monkeys described in option D is interesting but not directly related to the true statement about attachment.

Which of the Following Statements Is True About Attachment