The Stages Of Attachment

Question 1

Stage 1 is?

Answer 1

Asocial

Question 2

Stage 3 is?

Answer 2

Specific attachment

Question 3

Stage 4 is?

Answer 3

Multiple attachments

Question 4

Stage 2 is?

Answer 4

Indiscriminate attachment

Question 5

Around 2-7 months is the

Answer 5

Indiscriminate attachments

Question 6

Around the first months is the….

Answer 6

Asocial stage

Question 7

Shortly after 7 months….

Answer 7

Multiple attachments are formed

Question 8

At 7 months is when the….

Answer 8

Specific attachment is formed

Question 9

Who’s theory is the stages of attachment theory?

Answer 9

Schaffer and Emerson

Question 10

Which key study helped construct this theory?

Answer 10

The Glasgow Estate study

Question 11

What could be the problems with the key study of this theory

Answer 11

• You can’t really reliabily nor in a valid way look at the asocial stage as babies at this stage have poor co-ordination skills that could be easily misread. We can’t really know if something is in response to stimulus deliberately.
• Just because a baby becomes distressed when an adult leaves a room doesn’t mean they have formed an attachment, there isn’t a distinction between possibly secondary attachments and playmates.
• slightly unethical, as the children don’t get a say in whether they’re observed
• a limit sample size, 60 caregiver relationships is okay but it was from the same social class, same city, Same District. Not very generalisable.
• ethnocentric

Question 12

What is a rebuttal to the Strange situation key study?

Answer 12

Multiple attachments is brought into question when other cultures are put under view, the theory is ethnocentric after all.
Van IJzendoorn et al found that more collectivist cultures have babies get more used to multiple attachments.

Question 13

Strength of the study is…

Answer 13

• It’s longitudinal design
• Good external validity as behaviour is not altered because it’s parents doing the observing instead of researchers
• Good ecological validity

Question 14

How many carer-child relationships were analysed?

Answer 14

60

Question 15

It was a ____________ study

Answer 15

Longitudinal

Question 16

What kind of study was it?

Answer 16

Naturalistic observation

Question 17

Glasgow study was by

Answer 17

Schaffer and Emerson

Question 18

The positives of the Glasgow Estate study.

Answer 18

. Longitudinal, allows for a comparison to be made over time, we can measure progress.

Question 19

After 18 months away…

Answer 19

87% (90%) of the babies had formed multiple attachments.

Question 20

One criticism of the stages of attachment is…

Answer 20

That it’s a nomorhetic approach which is limited. A consequence is that those who deviate from the expected development are labelled as abnormal.

Question 21

There were ____ new born - mother pairs

Answer 21

600

Question 22

The study is also _____________, lacking population validity

Answer 22

Generalisabilitu

Question 23

The stages of attachment is also problematically but also strong because of …..

Answer 23

The nomotethic approach
Wea: it’s limited, not everyone develops
Str: it gives a set of laws of which we could use to

Question 24

18 months after the initial year of monthly visits…

Answer 24

87% of them had multiple attachments