Schaffers stages of attachment

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Schaffers stages of attachment

Advantages

  • good external validity- observations made by parents doing ordinary activities
  • real world application as asocial and indiscriminate stages babies can be comforted by anyone

Disadvantages

  • unlikes the mothers observations where objective
  • poor evidence for asocial stages - difficult for mothers to observe and report back signs of anxiety and attachment due to hard to observe subtle movements

Evaluation

+if researchers observed it may distract babies meaning highly likely the participants behaved naturally when being observed - mothers may be biased when observing babies e.g not notice anxiety or misinterpret them meaning natural behaviour may not be recored accurately - babies may actually be social in the asocial sage but because of flawed methods they appear asocial+means parents use of day care can be planned using Schaffer and Emersons stages

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