Role of the father

Question 1

_% of babies were attached with their father by around 18 months

Answer 1

75%

Question 2

Who is the ‘father’ in psychology?

Answer 2

The main male caregiver

Question 3

Can fathers be the primary attachment figure?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

What is the primary caregiver?

Answer 4

The person that the baby spends the most time with

Question 5

What did Grossman look at during his study?

Answer 5

Both parents’ behaviour and its relationship to the quality of their baby’s later attachments to others

Question 6

What did Grossman find out about the quality of the fathers’ play?

Answer 6

The quality of the play related to the quality of the adolescent attachments

Question 7

What did Grossman conclude with his study?

Answer 7

That the father’s role is less to do with emotional development and more to do with play and stimulation

Question 8

What did Field do during her study?

Answer 8

She filmed 4 month old babies in face-to-face interactions with primary caregiver mothers, primary caregiver fathers and secondary caregiver fathers

Question 9

What did she see with primary caregiver fathers?

Answer 9

Just like primary caregiver mothers they spent more time smiling, imitating and holding babies that secondary caregiver fathers

Question 10

What did Field conclude from her study?

Answer 10

That fathers have potential to be the more emotion-focused primary attachment figure