Stages of attachment
- Created by: bubliere
- Created on: 16-05-18 18:09
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- Stages of attachment
- 1. Asocial stage (first few weeks)
- Happier in the presence of humans
- Some preference for familiar adults
- behaviour to non-human objects and humans is similar
- 2. Indiscriminate attachment (2-7 months)
- behaviour not different towards any one person
- Prefer people over inanimate objects
- 3. Specific attachment (7 months)
- Stranger anxiety
- separation anxiety
- when primary caregiver leaves
- person who interacts & responds to baby the most
- when primary caregiver leaves
- 4. Multiple attachment (>1 year)
- form secondary attachments
- Shaffer and Emerson case study
- Procedure
- 60 Glaswegian babies
- mother interviewed about infant's reactions to everyday separations
- every month for a year then at 18 months
- Findings
- 50% of 25-32 weeks old infants showed signs of separation anxiety from a particular adult
- Attachment was with adults that showed reciprocity with the baby
- At 40 weeks 80% had specific attachment 30% & had multiple attachment
- Procedure
- Strenghts
- good ecological validity
- demand characteristics less likely to occur
- participants acted naturally
- good ecological validity
- Weakness
- Conflicting evidence of multiple attachment
- unclear when they start to form
- Izendoorn believed multiple attachments formed very early
- due to multiple caregivers being the norm in collectivist cultures,
- Conflicting evidence of multiple attachment
- 1. Asocial stage (first few weeks)
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