Schaffer's Stages Of Attachment
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- Created on: 04-03-20 10:00
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- Schaffer's Stage Of Attachment
- Stage 1 - Indiscriminate Attachment
- Infants respond the same inanimate and animate objects
- Reciprocity and interactional synchrony are key in this period
- From birth - 2 months
- Stage 2 - Beginnings of Attachment
- Around 4 months
- Infants become more social and prefer human company
- Can recognise familiar and unfamiliar people
- No stranger anxiety, comforted by anyone
- Stage 3 - Discriminate Attachment
- Around 7 months
- Separation anxiety occurs from primary attachment figure - joy at reunion
- Stranger anxiety occurs
- Primary attachment figure - person who responds to baby's signal the most
- Stage 4 - Multiple Attachments
- Soon after main attachment is formed
- Secondary attachments form with adults they regularly see
- by the age of 1 the majority of infants had a secondary attachment
- 29% of children formed a secondary attachment within a month of forming a primary one
- Stage 1 - Indiscriminate Attachment
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