Stages of attachment- Evaluation
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- Created on: 30-10-20 13:54
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- Stages of attachment- Evaluation
- Problems with studying the asocial stages
- Young children have poor coordination and are generally immobile
- And is therefore very difficult to make any judgment on them based on observations of their behaviour
- Meaning there isn't much observable behaviour, the evidence cant be relied on
- Conflicting evidence on multiple attachments
- It isn't clear when children form multiple attachments
- Bowlby (1969) stated that not all babies form attachments to a single main carer before they become capable of developing multiple attachments
- Where as other psychologists in particular those of ones in cultural contexts where multiple caregivers are the norm, believe that babies form multiple attachments from the start
- Van Ijzendoorn et al (1993) believe that is is true because collectivist cultures do everything as a family
- Measuring multiple attachments
- Just because a baby becomes distressed when an individual leaves a room doesn't mean that the figure is a true attachment figure
- Bowlby (1969) pointed out that children make play mates as well as attachment figures and may become distressed when the playmate leaves the room but this doesn't signify attachment
- This is a limitation because their observations don't leave us a way to distinguish between behaviours shown towards secondary attachment figures and towards playmates
- Problems with studying the asocial stages
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