In follow-up appointments or visits with parents and their new baby, it is useful if the nurse can identify infant behaviors that can either facilitate or inhibit attachment. Which of the fol-lowing is an inhibiting behavior?

Question

1. The infant cries only when hungry or wet.
2. The infant's activity is somewhat predictable.
3. The infant clings to the parents.
4. The infant seeks attention from any adult in the room.

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1, 2, 3. Incorrect. This is considered a facilitating behavior. Facilitating and inhibiting behaviors describe those things that build or discourage bonding (attitudes); they don't reflect any value judgments on what might be healthy or unhealthy.
4. Correct. Parents want to be the focus of the infant's existence, as the infant is with theirs. Fa-cilitating and inhibiting behaviors describe those things that build or discourage bonding (atti-tudes); they don't reflect any value judgments on what might be healthy or unhealthy.