PSYCHOLOGY

Attachment is an intense emotional relationship specific to two people, that endures over time and in which prolonged seperation is accompanied by stress and sorrow. -Kagan et al 1978

Macoby 1980 4 key behaviours:

• Seeking PROXIMITY to caregiver
• DISTRESS on serperation
• Pleasure when RUNITED
• General ORIENTATION of behaviour towards caregiver

Seperation anxiety - anxcious when caregiver leaves

Stranger Distress - distressed when seeing people they dont know

Schaffer and Emerson - How attachments form

• Oberservation and interviewing
• 60 babies from working class Glasgow
• 2 types of behaviuor
• Babies responses
• Scale 1 - 4 rating

• First attachment is mother 65%
• Whoever interacted with the babies the most
• Developmental process
• Attachment formed between 6-8 mnths
• Fathers 3%
• Joint attachment 27%
• 40% attachment not to primary caregiver

Data from observation and mothers is prone to bias

Confined, only correct to Glasgow. Unrepresentitive sample

Babies may recognise reasearcher after a while

High in external validity as was not done in laboratory conditions

Alot of…