Repeatedly satisfied responses and the attendant events which lead to the satisfaction are viewed together as rewarding experiences. In the case of the infant, the mother’s promptness, dependability, regularity, and personal warmth ( close body contacts, fondling, etc. ) provide the essential reinforcement. For instance, a mother who devotes much appropriate attention to her child at the times he needs her is supportively reinforcing. The child, in turn, is more apt to adapt his behavior to those forms which will assure him mother’s consistent attention. There is more common interaction and guidance from a truly loving one than from a less available, or less affectionate mother. Consequently, the child becomes tempted to select the responses his environment seems to expect from him. He tends to manipulate his environment in order to pursue gratifying responses, while his environment suggests to him the range of satisfactions it can supply. The key to control is embedded in this dyadic relationship. The infant learns both to control and to be controlled. Moreover, the infant wills his submission to control. As a quick learner, he develops early “his techniques of co-operating with those who care for him, and of controlling them and insuring their nurturance”.