Schaffer's stages of Attachment
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- Schaffer's stages of Attachment
- Stages of Attachment
- (1) Asocial - First few weeks, baby behaves in same way to humans and inanimate objects.
- (2) Indiscriminate - Preference for (familiar) people, no stranger/separation anxiety.
- (3) Specific - At about 7 months with one primary attachment figure (65% were to the mother).
- (4) Multiple attachments - By 12 months most babies form several more attachments.
- Schaffer and Emerson's research
- Procedure - 60 Glasgow babies obeserved at home by mothers, reported on separation anxiety and stranger anxiety.
- FIndings - Babies developed attachment through a fixed sequence of stages.
- Strengths
- Good external validity - Mothers did the observing so babies not stressed by presence of researcher.
- Weaknesses
- Poor evidence for asocial stage - Babies have poor co-ordination, so may just seem asocial.
- Real-world application - Day care OK in asocial and indiscriminate stages (babies comforted by any adult), starting at specific attachment stage is undesirable.
- Stages of Attachment
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