Sears’ learning theory classifies dependency as a most essential component of learning. Rewarding reinforcement in all dyadic situations depends upon the child’s having consistent contacts with one or more persons. This essential relationship has its beginning in the curliest child-mother contacts when the child shifts his processes of learning from those based upon trial and error to those based upon dyadic reinforcement. A dyadic relationship fosters dependency and thus, reinforces it. The infant reveals dependent tendencies from birth. He tends to respond to people as recurring environmental phenomena during the first two months of his life. He calls upon them when hungry, cold, or otherwise in a state of biological need. The dependency drive is nurtured through the dyadic relationship of feeding during the child’s fourth to twelfth months. Once appropriate behavior assures dependency, a truly dyadic relationship exists. Both child and mother have their repertoire of significant actions which serve to stimulate responses from the other which will be compatible with their own expectancies.