Stages of attachments
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- Created on: 30-10-20 13:11
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- Stages of social attachment
- Stage 1: Asocial stage First few weeks- 2 months
- The babies behaviour between non-human objects and humans are quite similar
- They may show some preference for familiar adults in that those individuals can calm them down
- Babies are also happier in presence of adults
- Stage 2: Indiscriminate attachment 2-7 months
- Displayed more observable behaviour. They show a preference for people rather than inanimate objects, they recognise and prefer familiar adults
- Babies accept comfort and cuddles from any adult
- Don't usually show separation or stranger anxiety and is therefore said to be indiscriminate
- Stage 3: Specific attachment From 7 months
- Start to display stranger anxiety, when separated from one particular person. The mother in 65% of the cases
- Babies have formed specific attachment and this adult is the primary attachment
- Not necessarily the person that spends the most time with the child but who offers the most interaction and responds to the babies signals with the most skill
- Stage 4: Multiple attachments
- Shortly after the primary attachment is formed, and is then usually extended to multiple attachments with other adults who they regularly spend time with called secondary attachments
- In Schaffer's and Emerson's study, 29% of children made secondary attachments within a moth of making the initial attachment
- By the age of a year most infants have made both primary and secondary attachments
- Stage 1: Asocial stage First few weeks- 2 months
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