Stages of attachment
- Created by: jessicawarren
- Created on: 02-04-16 10:09
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- Stages of Attachment
- Asocial
- 0-6 weeks
- Infants respond to any kind of stimuli
- No preference for anyone in particular
- Indiscriminate
- 6 weeks- 7 months
- Infants show preference for humans
- Don't tend to show separation/stranger anxiety
- Discriminate
- 7-9 months
- Anxiety when separated from one particular individual
- Mother in 65% cases
- Multiple
- 10+ months
- Infants begin to attach to others
- By 18m, majority of infants form multiple attachments
- Evaluation
- W: Schaffer&Emersons interviews of parents/observation of behaviour- social desirability to make themselves look like better parents. Out of date research- small working class families in Glasgow 1960's, lacks PV, unrepresentative sample
- S: Study took place at home in natural environment. Behaviour similar to everyday- high in EV.
- Asocial
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