Schaffer's stages of attachment
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- Created on: 21-03-23 20:53
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- Schaffer's stages of attachment
- Stage 1: Asocial stage
- Behaviour towards humans and inanimate objects is very similar
- Babies do show a slight preference for the company of familiar people
- From 0-2 months
- Stage 2: Indiscriminate attachment
- From 2-7 months
- Babies show more obvious and observable behaviours
- Show a clear preference for people over inanimate objects
- They do not usually show separation anxiety or stranger anxiety
- Stage 3: Specific attachment
- From 7 months
- Start to show stranger anxiety and separation anxiety
- Baby forms an attachment to their primary attachment figure
- Stage 4: Multiple attachments
- Occurs shortly after a specific attachment has been formed
- Baby begins to form secondary attachments
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Good external validity
- The parents did the observations, meaning everyone behaved more naturally
- Real world application
- Useful in planning daycare
- Good external validity
- Weaknesses
- Parents may not have been objective observers
- Poor evidence for the asocial stage
- Difficult to observe anxious behaviours in baby's who cannot talk and barely move
- Strengths
- Stage 1: Asocial stage
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