Attachment
- Created by: Molly Byrne
- Created on: 15-04-13 18:40
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- Attachment
- Shaffer - A close emotional relationship between two persons, characterised by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity
- The main characteristics
- Separation anxiety.
- Seeking proximity.
- pleasure when re united.
- Stages in the development of attachment
- Asocial stage: 0 - 6 Weeks smiling and crying not directed at any individual.
- Indiscriminate 6 weeks - 7 months. Attention is sought from different individuals.
- Specific 7 - 11 months. Strong attachment to one individual.
- Secure attachment - distressed by caregivers absence, returns to a state of contentment upon return.
- Insecure avoidant - doesnt seek contact with the caregiver, shows little distressed when separated and avoids caregiver upon return.
- Insecure resistant - insecure in the presence of the caregiver, distressed when the caregiver leaves and resists contact upon return.
- Individual differences
- Maternal sensitivity hypothesis.
- Temperament hypothesis
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