Stages of attachment
- Created by: vanillacupcake02
- Created on: 27-02-23 09:33
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- Stages of attachment
- asocial stage
- first few weeks
- At the start of the stage, the baby has no preference for animate or inanimate objects
- Later begins to prefer social stimuli and be happier with people
- Reciprocity and interactional synchrony establish relationships with others and start to form bonds
- limiation - poor evidence for the asocial stage
- Indiscriminate
- 2-7 months
- Becomes more sociable, prefers people to inanimate objects
- Accepts cuddles and comfort from anyone
- Doesn't show separation or stranger anxiety
- multiple
- 1 year
- Multiple attachments can happen after the initial one
- Secondary attachments to several different people they like
- Within one month of initial attachment, 29% of babies had formed multiple attachments
- By 1 year most had formed multiple attachments
- specific
- 7 months +
- Begin to form specific attachments with those who are most sensitive to their needs
- Separation anxiety when the primary caregiver leaves
- Fear strangers
- strength - real world application to day care
- asocial stage
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