One of the first things that an infant learns is how to trust. Weather it be trust or mistrust, the infant goes through a process of learning this feeling. In order to understand how the infant learns to trust we must first understand what is important about learning trust and what kind of trust is the infant learning. Learning to trust one's helplessness to a trustworthy caregiver is the primary learning task of infancy. The …
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…smiling back. The caregiver and infant magnify each other's good feelings and thus associating the good feelings with the caregiver. This allows the infant to love the caregiver and form the foundation of trust. All of these factors contribute to the learning of trust by the infant. It is extremely important for the infant to learn trust so that it can grow up and become a normal, sociable human being and interact with other humans.