Schaffer and Emerson mind map
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- Created on: 11-12-20 10:05
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- Key study: Schaffer and Emerson
- Methodology
- 60 infants
- Glasgow
- One social group - population validity?
- Working class
- 60 infants
- One social group - population validity?
- Working class
- Interview
- Self report - social desirability bias?
- Own homes
- Natural behaviour?
- Monthly until 1yr, again at 1.5 years
- Findings
- 25-32 weeks: 50% showed separation anxiety
- 40 weeks: 80% specific attachment 30% multiple
- Attachment process followed 4 main stages
- Asocial, 1st few weeks
- Slight preference for people and eyes
- Indiscriminate, 2-7 months
- Social behaviour, prefer people
- No stranger or separation anxiety
- Discriminate, 7 months
- Specific attachment to one person
- Stranger and separation anxiety
- Multiple, 1 yr
- Secondary attachments
- 29% within 1 month of primary
- Asocial, 1st few weeks
- Evaluation
- Culturally bound
- Challenging monotropy
- Challenging monotropy - Bowlby was perhaps incorrect because secondary attachments form so soon after primary
- Rutter said all attachments are equal
- Challenging monotropy - Bowlby was perhaps incorrect because secondary attachments form so soon after primary
- Unreliable data
- Unreliable data - self report - social desirability bias - low validity
- Biased sample
- One social group - perhaps more working mothers due to class - low population validity
- Different time - 4x more s.a.h dads - cultural change - low temporal validity
- One social group - perhaps more working mothers due to class - low population validity
- Methodology
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