Schaffer's Stages of Attachment
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- Created on: 27-02-18 11:22
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- Schaffer's Stages of Attachment
- 2. Indiscriminate Attachment Phase
- 6 weeks to 6 months
- Any human company is sought out and all individuals provide comfort
- Infants are able to distinguish between individuals but have no preferences
- 4. Multiple Attachment Phase
- 11+ months
- Infants have attachments to family members and friends
- Attachment to the mother is still the strongest
- They have less stranger/separation anxiety
- 1. Asocial Stage
- Infants prefer faces to shapes and other objects
- 0-6 weeks
- Smiling faces study
- New born babies were taken from their mothers and shown a series of simple lines and dots - some resembling faces. Infants preferred looking at the faces than the scrambled ones
- 3. Specific Attachment Phase
- 7+ months
- Infants prefer certain people
- They display stranger and separation anxiety
- 2. Indiscriminate Attachment Phase
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