Who conducted a study into the sequence of events leading up to the development of attachment?
Schaffer and Emerson
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What type of study was it?
longitudinal
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How many infants did they study and for how long?
60 and the first two years of their lives.
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How often were the infants observed?
every four weeks
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What was attachment measured by?
Seperation protest (e.g. being left alone) and stranger anxiety
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When were the first signs of attachments found?
25-32 weeks
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When did fear of strangers happen?
one month later
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What did they find?
large individual differences, responsiveness of mother is to quality of attachment, children were attached to more than one person, main caregiver not necessarily main attachment figure
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