Stages of attachment
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 02-05-19 10:20
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- Stages of attachment
- Pre-attachment phase (birth to 3 months)
- Infants become attracted to other humans, preferring them to objects
- Indiscriminate attachment phase (3 to 7/8 months)
- Infants choose between familiar and unfamiliar people
- Smiling at known people, still allowing strangers to handle them
- Infants choose between familiar and unfamiliar people
- Discriminate attachment phase (Between 7 and 9 months)
- Infants develop specific attachments
- Stay close to particular people and showing distress upon separation
- Avoid strangers and will protest if a stranger tries to handle them
- Multiple attachments stage (From 9 months)
- Strong bonds with other major caregivers and non-caregivers
- Major caregivers include grandparents
- Non-caregivers include other children
- Fear of strangers weakens, attachment to mother is the strongest
- 31% of children in study had 5 or more attachments by 18 months
- Strong bonds with other major caregivers and non-caregivers
- Evaluation
- Children with multiple attachments are able to build more stable social relationships
- Stages came from self-report by mothers
- Retrospective data is unreliable and they are unlikely to write up everything (would avoid negative experiences)
- Potential social desirability bias
- Retrospective data is unreliable and they are unlikely to write up everything (would avoid negative experiences)
- Conducted in child's own home so more natural behaviour, high external validity
- Sample bias and lacks population validity; working class Glaswegians can't represent the whole world
- Difficult to generalise
- Separation protest; display of protest when separated from mother
- Pre-attachment phase (birth to 3 months)
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